toy
n.— «Not all murals successfully deter vandalism. At least three BMP-commissioned murals contain spray paint marks, including one mural found along the Gwynn Falls Parkway bike trail. Vandals have scrawled “toys,” a street term that insults one’s work as mediocre, pretentious or fake—a “toy mural.”» —“If these walls could talk…“ by Angela Chen in Johns Hopkins University News-Letter (Baltimore, Md.) Dec. 9, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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