tot lot
English
Etymology
Compound of tot + lot.
Noun
tot lot (plural tot lots)
- (outdoors) A playground for children, especially younger children
Adjective
tot lot (not comparable)
- Having attributes of children in play
- (figuratively, derogatory) immature
- 2019: "Sophistry in the Service of Evil" by Gabriel Schoenfeld, 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.
- 2019: "Sophistry in the Service of Evil" by Gabriel Schoenfeld, The Bulwark