tot lot

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compound of tot +‎ lot.

Noun[edit]

tot lot (plural tot lots)

  1. A playground for children, especially younger children.

Adjective[edit]

tot lot (not comparable)

  1. Having attributes of children's play. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (figurative, derogatory, nonce word) Immature; childish.
    • 2019, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Sophistry in the Service of Evil”, in The Bulwark:
      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.