"wedding tackle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wedding tackle.wav [US]
Etymology: Likely from the fishing-related sense of tackle, as though a man can use it to reel in a woman. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wedding tackle (uncountable)
  1. (colloquial, humorous) The penis. Tags: colloquial, humorous, uncountable Synonyms: male genitalia
    Sense id: en-wedding_tackle-en-noun-JrEPyTmp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Genitalia
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          "ref": "1992 September 26, Paul Taylor, “Theatre: Who're you looking at, Jacques?: Communicado's Glaswegian production of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 11 Jul 2020:",
          "text": "This is a coy way of describing a bulbous false proboscis that makes Tom Mannion's visage look, shall we say, very well-hung. As a cubist caprice, Dame Nature here seems to have stationed his wedding tackle between his eyes.",
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