phallic symbol: Meaning and Definition of

phal'lic sym'bol

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— Psychoanal. Psychoanal.
  1. any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, esp. such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
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