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playline

playline adjective: manufactured for use as a plaything, rather than as a collectible.

Adjective

playline (not comparable)

  1. Manufactured for use as a plaything, rather than as a collectible.
    • Playline Barbie dolls, when not exaggerated by the fantasy requirements of a juvenile audience, reference contemporary fashion far more closely than any of the expensive collector lines, designed in-house by Mattel.2004, Juliette Peers, The fashion doll: from Bébé Jumeau to Barbie, page 189

Origin of playline

From play + line.

Questions about playline

What does playline mean?
Playline means manufactured for use as a plaything, rather than as a collectible.
What part of speech is playline?
Playline is an adjective.

Words near playline in the dictionary

  1. playless
  2. playlessness
  3. playlet
  4. playlets
  5. playlike
  6. playline
  7. playlist
  8. playlisted
  9. playlisting
  10. playlistism
  11. playlists

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