wanker's cramp
- noun
- Offensive
:
calambre por masturbarse
- Typing reports nonstop gave him a case of wanker's cramp by evening.
Examples
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She claimed her wanker's cramp was acting up after a long day at the keyboard.
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After spending all afternoon playing video games, he joked about his wanker's cramp.
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After hours of gaming, I suffered from wanker's cramp.
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Don't complain about wanker's cramps unless you've tried typing for so long!
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After spending all afternoon playing video games, he joked about his wanker's cramp.
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She claimed her wanker's cramp was acting up after a long day at the keyboard.
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Typing reports nonstop gave him a case of wanker's cramp by evening.
Synonyms
5
3.5
A feeling of pain, numbness, or weakness in the hand caused by a nerve being squeezed in the wrist
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7.5
A painful, tight feeling in the hand or fingers after writing for a long time
Surface Forms
Morphology
wanker's + cramp
The phrase is compositionally built from 'wanker's' (indicating the activity/person associated with masturbating or repetitive hand use) plus 'cramp' (a painful muscle contraction), so its meaning — a cramp caused by that activity or repetitive hand use — is directly inferable from the parts. It is informal and vulgar slang (so learners may not know or use it), but given knowledge of the constituent words the sense is transparent.
Etymology
Wanker's cramp comes from a rude joke: a wanker is a crude word for someone who masturbates and a cramp is a painful tightness in a muscle. People used the image of a sore hand from too much use, so the phrase is now used jokingly for 'a painful hand condition from repetitive use'.