family jewels

Questions about family jewels

What does family jewels mean?

family jewels means "external male sex organs".

What is another word for family jewels?

Close synonyms include male genitalia, male genitals, male genital organ. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family jewels a common word?

family jewels is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.