JAQ off

verb

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.

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Meanings

verbJAQ off (third-person singular simple present JAQs off, present participle JAQing off, simple past and past participle JAQed off)

present singular third person JAQs off · participle present JAQing off · participle past JAQed off · past JAQed off

  1. derogatoryslangTo 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.

Origin

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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APA

JAQ off. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/JAQ%20off

MLA

“JAQ off.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/JAQ%20off. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “JAQ off,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/JAQ%20off.

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