male enhancement

Noun

male enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural male enhancements)

1. (euphemistic) A method of enlarging the penis.
   • Male Enhancement Pills Is it a Hoax or Do They Really Work? A Pill That Can Increase Your Size!* Just pay for the postage stamp.2008, King Magazine
2. (euphemistic) A chemical means of inducing an erection of the penis.
   • We live in a culture where ads for “male enhancement” are commonplace, and currently, three drugs—Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis—compete for the erectile dysfunction market.2004, Meika Loe, The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 3
   • It may be less than shocking that about 70 percent of the transactions made through rogue pharmacy websites advertised by Gusev's SpamIt and Vrublevsky's Rx-Promotion were for male-enhancement drugs like Viagra and Cialis.2014, Brian Krebs, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 67
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see male, enhancement.
   • They make [various wild animals] appear as dangerous as possible. These mostly male enhancements are part of the big lie that hunting is a high-risk, manhood-making validation of self.2013, Will Anderson, This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology: How We Find Our Way to a Humane and Environmentally Sane Future, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 293
   • Trace eyeblink conditioning is likewise affected by acute stress and is associated with female impairments and male enhancements in acquisition.2007, Jill B. Becker, Karen J. Berkley, Nori Geary, Elizabeth Hampson, James P. Herman, Elizabeth Young, Sex Differences in the Brain: From Genes to Behavior, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 240