Etymology

JAQ off

Today it means: To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make one's tangential accusations of little verisimilitude appear acceptable. Full definition →

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The story

Blend of JAQ (“just asking questions”) + jack off (“to masturbate”); because of the former phrase originally chiefly used in the gerund form, and so coined by a user of the James Randi Educational Foundation’s International Skeptics Forum on 14th September 2006 about truthers.

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