jerking off
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9.9
- noun
- Offensive
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- Many young men experiment with jerking off during their teenage years.
- stop jerking off
- guys jerking off
- jerking off several times
Using the bathroom, jerking off, playing video games, asleep.
- Using the bathroom, jerking off, playing video games, asleep.
- Just this close to jerking off in my ball in your own pool.
- No, it's like, then that would mean jerking off as gay.
Examples
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Having his entire family know what they were going through was nearly as humiliating as jerking off into a jar.
Fiction book (2002) -
One night, I woke up around 2 AM to him watching porn and jerking off.
Blog text (11) -
- I better start jerking off first.
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When was the last time you jerked off?
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Um, I would love a copy of the tape, you know, for, like, jerking off later, whatever.
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I'm jerking off right now.
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I give you permission to picture her while you're jerking off.
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Dan said the struggle is when you pee after jerking off, it burns a little.
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Is that what you do on Saturdays when you're done jerking off?
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"No longer plagued by the fear of sterility, I felt that jerking off was one more routine, not much more erotic than eating or sleeping.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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6.3
Touching your own or someone else's private parts to feel sexual pleasure
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9.9
To touch your own private parts to feel good
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9.9
An act of touching your own private parts to get sexual pleasure
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9.9
A slang word for a man touching his penis to get sexual pleasure
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'jerk' (a quick spasmodic movement) combined with 'off' gives a partial clue to a repetitive or completed manual action, so there is a visible metaphorical link to the physical motion involved in masturbation. However, the specific sexual meaning is slangy and culturally coded rather than directly predictable from the constituents, so a B1 learner who knows the words but has not encountered the phrase is unlikely to infer the full meaning reliably.
Etymology
The phrase jerking off comes from the simple image of a quick, repeated hand movement used to get sexual release. The word jerk means a sudden move and off gives a sense of finishing, so the phrase now means 'to masturbate'.