phallic

Adjective

1. Relating to, or characteristic of the penis.
   • A little later the phallic explanation of everything came into fashion. The deities were all polite names for the organs and powers of procreation. - 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York:...
   • The natural rhythm of the male is a phallic one of rise and fall, whether it involves towers, stock markets, or whole civilizations. - 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology,...
2. Shaped like an erect human penis.
   • My mother has a very phallic salt shaker.
   • For many first-time visitors, a common initial impression of the Washington Monument is that it is incredibly phallic. - 1993, Joseph Downton, Washington D.C.: An Alternative Guide, page T-221:
   • The incinerator and a big smoke stack / It's a phallic symbol and it makes me laugh - 2005, Mother Mother, “Verbatim”:
3. Relating to or exhibiting masculine or patriarchal traits, seen metaphorically as seated in the male genitalia.
   • Opposing the war in El Salvador and opposing the phallic aggression everywhere. - 1990 April 14, Jeremy Grainger, Read Weaver, “You Don't Gotta!”, in Gay Community News, page 8: