jerk off

See also jerkoff, and jerk-off

English

Verb

jerk off (third-person singular simple present jerks off, present participle jerking off, simple past and past participle jerked off)

1. (dated) Used other than as an idiom: see jerk,‎ off.
   • 1884, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Seventeenth annual report of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for the year 1883-84, page 32:

     I climb up in my trees myself, and jerk off the suckers in the trees.

   • 1896, California Superior Courts, Colorado Supreme Court, Kansas Supreme Court, et al, The Pacific reporter, page 265:

     The conductor and the head brakeman testified that they gave no order to Roy Wilson or any one else to jerk off or pull off young Mitchell from the train.

2. (idiomatic, slang) To masturbate, usually a male.
   • 1999, John Stoltenberg, The end of manhood: parables on sex and selfhood, page 245:

     But to learn to love manhood, sooner or later you have to learn to jerk off in one particular way, to the exclusion of some other possible ways.

3. (intransitive, vulgar) To do nothing; to waste time.

   Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.

4. (transitive, vulgar) To deceive.

   He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:masturbate

Related terms

• jack off
• jerk

Derived terms

• jerk-off, jerkoff

Translations

To masturbate

• Armenian: ժաժ տալ (hy) (žaž tal) 
• Catalan: pallejar-se (ca), gallardar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打炮 (daa2 paau3)

  Mandarin: 打手槍 (cmn), 打手枪 (cmn) (dǎ shouqiāng), 打飛機 (cmn), 打飞机 (cmn) (dǎ fēijī), 見伍姑娘 (cmn), 见伍姑娘 (cmn) (jiàn Wǔ gūniang), 打炮 (cmn) (dǎpào)

• Dutch: rukken (nl)
• Estonian: pihku peksma (et), pihku taguma (et), onama (et)
• Finnish: runkata (fi), vetää käteen (fi)
• French: se branler (fr)
• German: abspritzen (de), wichsen (de), sich runterholen (de)
• Italian: farsi una sega (it)

• Japanese: めく (ja) (meku), マスをかく (ja) (masu-o kaku)
• Lithuanian: smaukyti (lt)
• Maltese: ġerrieh (mt)
• Polish: walić konia (pl), trzepać gruchę (pl)
• Romanian: a face labă (ro)
• Russian: дрочить (ru) (dročít’) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дркати (sh)

  Roman: drkati (sh)

• Slovene: dŕkati (sl)
• Spanish: pajearse (es)
• Swedish: runka (sv)
• West Frisian: lobje (fy)

Noun

jerk off (plural jerk offs)

1. (vulgar, slang, US) an annoying person.