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What (who) is playpen - definition
PORTABLE ENCLOSURE IN WHICH YOUNG CHILDREN MAY SAFELY PLAY
Play Pen; Playard; Playpens; Play yard; Play pen
playpen
(IBM) A room where programmers work.
Compare salt mines.
[Jargon File ]
playpen
¦ noun a small portable enclosure in which a baby or small child can play safely.
playpen
(playpens)
A playpen is a small structure which is designed for a baby or young child to play safely in. It has bars or a net round the sides and is open at the top.
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Playpen
A playpen is a piece of furniture in which an infant or young toddler (typically those less than 35 inches (89 cm) tall and 30 pounds (14 kg)) is placed to prevent self-harm when her/his parent or guardian is occupied or away. The earliest use of the word "playpen" cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is 1902.
Examples of use of playpen
1. I’ll buy a playpen," she said from her one–bedroom flat in Cadiz, in southern Spain.
2. You feel a bit like a spoilt baby plonked down in its playpen.
3. London‘s skyline will be left looking like some banal children‘s playpen littered with geometrical toys.
4. He would go to old–fashioned sherry parties to meet girls and also went to the popular Playpen nightclub.
5. "When you were really tiny we put you in a playpen when I was busy," my mother says.