jerk off
English
Alternative forms
- J-O, J/O (abbreviation)
Pronunciation
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Verb
jerk off (third-person singular simple present jerks off, present participle jerking off, simple past and past participle jerked off) (chiefly US)
- (dated) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: 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.
- (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.
- (intransitive, vulgar) To do nothing; to waste time.
- Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.
- (transitive, vulgar) To deceive.
- He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:masturbate
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to masturbate
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Noun
jerk off (countable and uncountable, plural jerk offs)
- (vulgar, countable, slang, US) An annoying person.
- (vulgar, uncountable, US) An act of masturbation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Synonyms: wank, toss, tug, fingering; see also Thesaurus:masturbation
- (film) A stunt in which the performer is suddenly pulled off a horse, etc. by means of a cable.
- 2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s:
- He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.
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