Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. fig. use meaning sexual ‘wares’.

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in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy I 194: Mind your Matters ye Sot without medling / How I manage the sale of my Toys.

2. any appliances designed to increase sexual pleasure or fantasies.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 184: toys sexual instruments of fun and pain (cock rings, cat-onines, handcuffs, leather gags, prick stretchers, whips, etc.).
1974		Maclean’s (Toronto) July 25: Gradually I learned the swingers’ lingo: ‘TVs’ meant transvestites; ‘toys’ meant anything from vibrators to whips.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 163: The Scene stresses the play-acting aspect of so-called games, toys (bondage or torture devices).
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 67: Not like those rinkydink toys sold in S&M shops.
2000		M.E. Dassad ‘Chickenhawk’ at www.cultdeadcow.com 🌐 Then, taking a medium sized studded black rubber vibrating dildo from the bag of toys I’d deposited on the bed, I scooped a generous glop of Heet from the jar and liberally coated the dildo with the slick gel.