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  • noun Plural form of phallus.

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Examples

  • A teaser: When she first visited in January, the phalluses were the size of rice grains.

    Duck Sex Evolution 2007

  • One never knows. ps -- I had to look up "phalluses" ... just to be sure, y'know.

    This Is A Test......... SteveB 2009

  • A 746-year-old fresco called "The Tree Of Fertility" is at the center of a scandal in Italy, after artists restoring the work appear to have removed several phalluses from the piece.

    Watch: Italian Art Restorers Accused of Censoring Phallic Fresco Mark Hanrahan 2011

  • Fascinating, horrifying, and amusing -- oftentimes all of those things at the same time -- Powers 'celluloid world is one populated by midgets, bald chicks, and crazed men outfitted with monster-sized papier-mâché phalluses which spew torrents of goo onto the naked bodies of supine women, movies in which everyone has sex all of the time, and in which, most of the time, no one appears to win.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • A 746-year-old fresco called "The Tree Of Fertility" is at the center of a scandal in Italy, after artists restoring the work appear to have removed several phalluses from the piece.

    Watch: Italian Art Restorers Accused of Censoring Phallic Fresco Mark Hanrahan 2011

  • Madame Jane's eye is caught by the paintings of giant phalluses that adorn the sides of many of the houses they pass.

    Blissful Transmissions Melanie Kirkpatrick 2011

  • How could I describe Lysistrata to them—a play turgid with raw sexual jokes, originally performed by men wearing giant leather phalluses?

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • He has also added images of Adirondack chairs, drifting rafts, tangled brambles, a hotdog and empty canoes, some of which hover near or point to the scantily clad women like arrows or disembodied phalluses.

    Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

  • How could I describe Lysistrata to them—a play turgid with raw sexual jokes, originally performed by men wearing giant leather phalluses?

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Search hard, and phalluses appear among the squiggles though American critics sometimes confused them with carrots or rockets, and in 1961 the juicy Ferragosto paintings recreated the mid-August holiday with lurid colours and brown scatological smears, applied once again with the left hand: Roland Barthes aptly described them as gestures of "dirtying", "deranging the morality of the body".

    Cy Twombly obituary 2011

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