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to choke the chicken

9.9
To touch a man's penis to make him sexually excited
  • idiom
  • Offensive
translation icon : pajearse (vulgar)
  • He likes to choke the chicken when he's alone.

Examples

  • He claimed he needed some privacy to choke the chicken before his date.

  • In their conversation, the friends joked about not having time to choke the chicken lately.

  • You shouldn't make such obvious excuses just to choke the chicken in peace.

  • Don't choke the chicken in public!

  • He claimed he needed some privacy to choke the chicken before his date.

  • In their conversation, the friends joked about not having time to choke the chicken lately.

  • You shouldn't make such obvious excuses just to choke the chicken in peace.

Synonyms

to jerk off
vsto choke the chicken
  • Offensive
30 9.9

To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure

is slang but described without the explicit vulgar label
jerking off
vsto choke the chicken
  • Offensive
19 9.9

To touch your own penis to get sexual pleasure

describes the action as a verb rather than a noun
to jack off
vsto choke the chicken
  • Offensive
8 9.9

To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure, usually by a man

is slang but not necessarily marked as crude
to beating his meat
vsto choke the chicken
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To touch a man's penis to get sexual pleasure

is slang with broader or less explicit phrasing
to flog the dolphin
vsto choke the chicken
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To touch your own penis to make yourself sexually excited

is plain slang without the playful euphemistic tone
to beat one's meat
vsto choke the chicken
  • Offensive
9.9

To touch his own penis to feel sexual pleasure

is slang in general rather than framed as an idiom

Surface Forms

choke the chicken infinitive
choked the chicken past
choked the chicken past participle
choking the chicken present participle
chokes the chicken third person singular

Morphology

choke + the + chicken

The sexual slang meaning 'to masturbate' cannot be derived from the literal meanings of 'choke' (to strangle or obstruct breathing) and 'chicken' (a bird) or the article 'the'. This is a culturally specific, idiomatic and euphemistic expression with no transparent compositional logic, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would not predict its meaning.

Etymology

The slang choke the chicken may come from the image of someone choking a small bird, because the words choke and chicken bring to mind a tight hand motion. One popular story says people used that picture for the action 'to masturbate', so the phrase now means that.