Meanings
present singular third person beats oneself · participle present beating oneself · participle past beaten oneself
- slangTo masturbate.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat.
It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish beating themselves on the floor.
1920, Mary Heaton Vorse, Growing Up
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