Meanings
play-doh1
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of playdough.
Billy wants to play with play-doh?
2009, Laurie S. Eisenberg, editor, Clinical Management of Children with Cochlear Implants, Plural Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 4833 more examples
I want a Barbie in the pink shoe doll, make up, earrings, pink goo, and a play-doh icecream maker.
2013 December 25, Breahna Davault, “Letters to Santa”, in Prattville Progress, page 2BUsing play-doh to complete the picture can be even more interactive.
2017, Karen Treisman, Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents, Routledge, →ISBNFor examples, students may write letters or form words using play-doh or complete addition and subtraction problems with play-doh rolls as manipulatives.
2022, Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 1175
Play-Doh2
- uncountablePlaydough from the brand Play-Doh.
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A centurion who resembled a katydid waved something that looked like a pop-up toaster, and the next thing I knew, my laser melted, my shields were Play-Doh, and some kind of high energy plasma blasted me all the way down to Level 6. I fought my way back okay, but this time my path was blocked by this giant millipede.
2019, Gordon Korman, Level 13: A Slacker Novel, Scholastic Press, page 114
Origin
From the trademarked respelling Play-Doh.
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