potato
n.— «Gator still has his potatoes.…He doesn’t like for us to call them testicles, so we call them potatoes.» —“Hound has a nose for south end of a northbound whale” by Robert McClure Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington) May 22, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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