jacking off
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9.9
- idiom
- /ˈdʒækɪŋ ɔf/
- Offensive
- It's about jacking off now, Kurt.
- jacking off in the bathroom
- jacking off now
Examples
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God I remember the first time I jacked off.
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Is jacking off still a sin?
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I was jacking off, all right?
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Phil, you cannot spend your whole life jacking off into your socks.
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Maybe he's jacking off too much.
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You mean jacking off?
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Stop jacking off.
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He admitted that he used to be embarrassed about jacking off as a teenager.
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During their conversation, they joked about jacking off when they were alone.
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He found himself spending too much time jacking off instead of pursuing relationships.
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
An act of touching your own private parts to get sexual pleasure
To touch your own penis to get sexual pleasure
Surface Forms
Morphology
jacking + off
The sexual meaning 'masturbating' is slang and idiomatic; it is not transparently derivable from the literal senses of 'jacking' (no clear literal sense here) and 'off' (away/completion). Because this is a colloquial/taboo expression whose meaning is language-specific and non-compositional, a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would be unlikely to infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The slang jacking off likely comes from the word jack meaning 'to jerk' and the part off showing the action ends, so the phrase paints a clear image of quick, repeated hand movements and came to mean 'masturbating'.