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hand job

24 9.9
A sexual act where one person uses a hand to touch a man's penis for pleasure
  • noun
  • /hænd dʒɑb/
  • Offensive
translation icon : paja
  • She gave him a hand job to help him relax after a long day.
  • give hand jobs
  • getting a hand job
  • quick hand job

I was begging for hand jobs just to be touched.

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Examples

Synonyms

masturbation
vshand job
  • Offensive
44 6.3

Touching your own or someone else's private parts to feel sexual pleasure

focuses only on manually stimulating the penis rather than any genital touching

Surface Forms

hand job singular
hand jobs plural

Morphology

hand + job

The components 'hand' (instrument) and 'job' (task/act) make it partly predictable that this denotes an action performed with the hand, but the specific sexual meaning (manual stimulation of the penis) is a culturally marked, slang sense that a B1 learner is unlikely to derive reliably from the parts alone. The expression's informal/vulgar register and the vagueness of 'job' make the connection only partially transparent rather than fully compositional.

Etymology

The slang hand job comes from joining hand and job: 'job' once meant a small task, and here the phrase names an act done with the hand. That's why it now means a 'sexual act' done with the hand.