red doll
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of red doll
First recorded in 1970–75; red 1 ( def. ) + doll ( def. ) (in the slang sense “barbiturate in pill form”)
Example Sentences
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The future of Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience now depends not just on people, but on a couple of round red doll heads, each about the size of a basketball.
From Seattle Times
They were sitting upon two of the little red doll chairs where Marcella had placed them and where they could see the other dolls.
From Project Gutenberg
Now, that night Marcella did not undress the two new dolls, for she had no nighties for them, so she let them sit up in the two little red doll chairs so they would not muss their clothes.
From Project Gutenberg
The fly stopped before a delightfully gay little red doll's house—so Malling thought of it—standing in a garden surrounded by a wooden fence, with the downs undulating about it.
From Project Gutenberg
That night when, very late, Mr. Harding and Malling returned to the red doll's house and let themselves into it with a latch-key, they found lying upon the table in the little hall a brown envelop.
From Project Gutenberg
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