Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The penis.

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  • noun slang penis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration (probably influenced by whack) of earlier tallywag, perhaps from tally, counterpart, something that fits another thing + wag.]

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Examples

  • Spray-painting "tallywhacker" on my headstone seems excessive though.

    Patrick Sauer: Porky's: An Oral History Patrick Sauer 2010

  • Spray-painting "tallywhacker" on my headstone seems excessive though.

    Patrick Sauer: Porky's : An Oral History Patrick Sauer 2010

  • I haven't seen his "tallywhacker" in a few years, but the last time I saw it, I was envious.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001

  • A tallywhacker, by the way, is that cloth flap on the back of a sailor's shirt ... just in case you didn't know!

    The Gun Builder As Artist 2009

  • A tallywhacker, by the way, is that cloth flap on the back of a sailor's shirt ... just in case you didn't know!

    The Gun Builder As Artist 2009

  • After hemming and hawing uncharacteristically for a few minutes, he summed up his “birds and bees” talk by advising John: “Son, for now, you just use that little tallywhacker there for peeing through.”

    With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

  • I had to submit to an initiation where they were gonna nail my tallywhacker to a log that was already burning at one end and then see if I had enough scoutskilz to disattach myself--before I became a "hot dot"--without ripping off my nascent manhoodliness.

    Socialists Plot to Seize our Means of Reproduction 2009

  • I'm going to have to cut off my tallywhacker to destroy the evidence.

    Barack Obama Show US Your Penis 2009

  • Finally I couldn't hold it any longer, so I lifted the radio to the side of me and pulled out my tallywhacker and let go, lying on my side.

    "THE WAR" -- EXCERPT FROM "GINNY BATES" Maggie Jochild 2007

  •   He had said to watch especially for black widows and, with an exaggerated laugh, added that he knew a man once who got bit on the end of his tallywhacker and it swoll up almost three times normal size.

    THE TICK IS FULL 2009

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