bash the bishop

verb

To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.

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Meanings

verbbash the bishop (third-person singular simple present bashes the bishop, present participle bashing the bishop, simple past and past participle bashed the bishop)

present singular third person bashes the bishop · participle present bashing the bishop · participle past bashed the bishop · past bashed the bishop

  1. idiomaticslangTo masturbate by stimulating one's penis.

    “Hello, Gladys,” I said, shaking her by the hand. “Joffy here used to bash the bishop so much when he was a boy we all thought he would go blind.”

    2003, Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
box the jesuitflog the bishopmasturbate

Origin

Uncertain or disputed. Goldman (1950) suggests that beat the bishop comes from a resemblance of the penis to a bishop’s miter; Partridge (7th ed., 1970) likewise derives bash the bishop from a resemblance to the Staunton bishop chess piece. Other sources, such as Green, suggest that assonance of bishop with bash, beat, bop etc. may have given rise to the phrase as a type of word play.

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Translations

Catalan pelar-se-la, cascar
  • pelar-se-laslang for masturbate
  • cascarslang for masturbate
Chinese Mandarin 打飛機 /打飞机
  • 打飛機 /打飞机 (dǎ fēijī)slang for masturbate
Finnish runkata
  • runkataslang for masturbate
French étrangler le borgne, s'astiquer le manche
  • étrangler le borgneslang for masturbate
  • s'astiquer le mancheslang for masturbate
  • se tutoyerslang for masturbate
  • s'astiquer le poireauslang for masturbate
  • se crosserslang for masturbate
  • se taper une queueslang for masturbate
Polish walić konia
  • walić koniaslang for masturbate
Russian гонять лысого
  • гонять лысогоslang for masturbate
Spanish pajearse, pelársela
  • pajearseslang for masturbate
  • pelárselaslang for masturbate
  • darle a la zambombaslang for masturbate
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

“bash the bishop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bash%20the%20bishop. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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

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