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🙈 To masturbate 🤪 To act stupidly

to jerk off

30 9.9
To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure
  • phrasal verb
  • /dʒɜrk ɔf/
  • Offensive
translation icon : pajearse
  • What should I do, sit here and jerk off at the ceiling?
  • guy jerks off
  • just jerk off
  • maybe you jerk off

Oh, if your boyfriend jerks off too much is my husband?

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Examples

  • Maybe you can jerk off a little and I can watch.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • What's it to you if a guy jerks off two times, or three?

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Who do you want teaching your son to jerk off, huh?

    Theo Von

  • What if you just want to jerk off?

    Inside the Rain (2020)

  • Did he jerk off to it?

    8MM (1999)

  • Usually I jerk off into socks, but when I'm feeling fancy.

  • Jonathon came over and went into the back bedroom and jerked off into a plastic cup.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • After a long day, he just wanted to go home and jerk off in private.

  • Feeling stressed, he decided to jerk off to relieve some tension.

  • He confessed to his friend that he sometimes jerked off while watching adult films.

Synonyms

to masturbate
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
98 7.7

Touch your own private parts for sexual pleasure

is the same act but expressed as vulgar slang for men
to jack off
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
8 9.9

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

is the same act but framed as vulgar slang for men
to wank
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
5 9.9

To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure

is the same act but used broadly outside British English
to fap
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To touch one's penis to get sexual pleasure

is the same act but mainly known as crude, spoken slang for men
to flog the dolphin
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To touch your own penis to make yourself sexually excited

is the same act but usually found in crude or vulgar slang
to beat one's meat
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
9.9

To touch his own penis to feel sexual pleasure

is the same act but expressed as vulgar male slang
to choke the chicken
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
9.9

To touch a man's penis to make him sexually excited

is the same act but conveyed as vulgar slang rather than joking phrase
to spank it
vsto jerk off
  • Offensive
9.9

Touch your own private parts to get pleasure

is the same act but expressed as more vulgar and direct slang

How Vulgar

to jerk off
  • Offensive
30 9.9
to flog the dolphin
  • Offensive
1 9.9
to masturbate
  • Offensive
98 7.7
self-pleasure
  • NSFW
8.7

Surface Forms

jerk off infinitive
jerked off past
jerked off past participle
jerking off present participle
jerks off third person singular

Morphology

jerk + off

The primary meaning 'to masturbate' is vulgar slang and does not follow from the literal senses of 'jerk' (a sudden movement or an insulting person) plus 'off' (away/remove). This sexualized, idiomatic sense is unpredictable from the parts and would not be reliably inferred by a B1 learner who only knows the constituents.

Etymology

Jerk off may come from the simple image of a quick 'jerk' movement away from the body, with 'off' showing the action is finished. That's why the phrase means 'to masturbate'.