any object, such as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, esp one that symbolizes power, such as an automobile
phallic symbol in American English
noun
Psychoanalysis
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
Word origin
[1905–10]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airway, cadre, one-shot, thiamine, white list