"dick-measuring contest" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dick-measuring contest.wav Forms: dick-measuring contests [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=dick-measuring contest}} dick-measuring contest (plural dick-measuring contests)
  1. (vulgar, figurative) A situation in which people (usually men) compete, often over superficial characteristics, to demonstrate their worthiness, power, etc. Tags: figuratively, vulgar Synonyms (pointless competition or dispute): dick-waving contest, pissing contest, pissing match, pissing war, shitting match Translations (competition to demonstrate worthiness): kukkoilu (Finnish), kukkotappelu (Finnish), concours de qui a la plus grosse [masculine] (French), Schwanzvergleich [masculine] (German), faszméregetés (Hungarian), konkurs męskości [masculine] (Polish), фаллометри́я (fallometríja) [feminine] (Russian), ме́ряние пипи́ськами (mérjanije pipísʹkami) [neuter] (Russian), паткометрија [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), курцометрија [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kukmätartävling [common-gender] (Swedish), snoppmätartävling [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dick, measuring, contest.
    Sense id: en-dick-measuring_contest-en-noun-bjCWdUZ0

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