tot lot

noun

A playground for children, especially younger children.

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Meanings

nountot lot (plural tot lots)

plural tot lots

  1. A playground for children, especially younger children.
adjectivetot lot (not comparable)
  1. derogatoryfigurativelynonce wordnot comparableImmature; childish; having attributes of children's play.

    Trump’s target, Hanson suggests, was left reeling: "Kim Jong Un expected to slur Western leaders; he never expected any of them to smear him in kind." But Hanson never pauses to examine the substantive results of such a tot lot approach.

    2019, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Sophistry in the Service of Evil”, in The Bulwark

Origin

Compound of tot + lot.

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APA

tot lot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tot%20lot

MLA

“tot lot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tot%20lot. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tot lot,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tot%20lot.

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