to jerk off
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- phrasal verb
- /dʒɜrk ɔf/
- Offensive
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hacer el idiota
- For talking back to his dad and keeping weird jerk off material under his mattress?
Just who knows, you know, some Israeli lizard licking a Bitcoin somewhere, jerking off in a, in a, in a, in a bank vault.
- Just who knows, you know, some Israeli lizard licking a Bitcoin somewhere, jerking off in a, in a, in a, in a bank vault.
- I like that you said it was something like that was what It was something like jerk off in a movie.
Examples
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l didn't invite you here to jerk off, you know.
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Well, maybe I shouldn't have come at all, jerk off!
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Oh, please, I have better things to do than watch you jerk off.
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You think the Pope ever jerks off.
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You can't get a pass from God to jerk off.
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You'll just have to jerk off as the Italians do.
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Beat it, jerk off.
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There's no tracing it to us, jerk off.
Fiction book (2002) -
That's where you're wrong, 'cause I am no typical, no hoper jerk off.
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He was so bored that he decided to jerk off in the bathroom.
Synonyms
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To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure, usually by a man
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To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure
Surface Forms
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 as an insult may come from linking a person to that rude, shameful action; calling someone that painted them as low or foolish. So it became a quick, strong way to call a person 'foolish' or 'contemptible'.