Phallic-symbol
noun, Psychoanalysis.
1.
any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
phallic symbol [(fal-ik)]
A symbol of the penis.
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