LEGOs

Colorful interlocking bricks

LEGOs is the informal plural of LEGO, the brand of interlocking plastic building blocks.

Purists and the company insist on "LEGO bricks" or "LEGO sets," but in casual speech, LEGOs dominates: The kids left LEGOs all over the floor.

Stepping on one barefoot is a reliable source of parental agony.

building

bricks

Fired clay building units

minifigures · sets · instructions · pieces · snapping · stacking · connecting · interlocking · towers · structures

culture

Danish

Of Denmark

collectors · resale · designers · custom · YouTube · haul · review · investment · rare · vintage

play

imagination

Faculty for forming ideas

birthday · Christmas · wishlist · collecting · sorting · bins · storage · playtime · creativity · pretend

themes

City

Incorporated urban area

  • FriendsNineties sitcom, six Manhattanites
  • MarvelSuperhero media conglomerate
  • BatmanGotham's masked vigilante

Castle · Minecraft · Disney · Jurassic

pain

stepping

Moving on foot

ouch · floor · scattered · cleanup · hazard · nighttime · parenting · memes · curse · agony

Categories
Opposites
construction material

LEGOswooden blocks

Solid toy cubes

Lincoln Logs · clay · Play-Doh · modeling clay · sand

play structure

LEGOssand

Fine rock particles

Play-Doh · finger paint · modeling clay · crayons · sandbox

permanence/assembly

LEGOscement

Calcium powder binding agent

action figures

Phrases
Family

Lego, legate, legal, illegal, legally, illegally, legality, illegality, legalize

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G