jerk off

present singular third person jerks off · participle present jerking off · participle past jerked off · past jerked off · alternative abbreviation J-O · alternative abbreviation J/O

1. AustraliaCanadaUSidiomaticintransitivevulgarTo masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.

   My partner and I jerk off together sometimes.

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   But to learn to love manhood, sooner or later you have to learn to jerk off in one particular way, to the exclusion of some other possible ways.

   1999, John Stoltenberg, The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood, page 245

   Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here.

   1999, Alan Ball (screenwriter), American Beauty (motion picture), spoken by Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey)

   Synonyms: jack off, abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap

2. AustraliaCanadaUSidiomatictransitivevulgarTo manually stimulate someone else's penis; to give a hand job.

   She jerked me off with both hands and it felt so good I almost started crying.

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   Once in cofessional ^([sic]) I told a priest I had jerked off another boy. Man, you'd have thought I'd killed him. What a lecture I got about hell and damnation! I was hoping to get some guidance and understanding. That was the end of confessions for years.

   1983 December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 7

3. AustraliaCanadaUSidiomaticintransitivevulgarTo do nothing; to waste time.

   Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.

4. AustraliaCanadaUSidiomatictransitivevulgarTo deceive.

   He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.

5. AustraliaCanadaUSdatedidiomaticUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jerk, off.

   I climb up in my trees myself, and jerk off the suckers in the trees.

   1884, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Seventeenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for the Year 1883-84, page 32

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   The conductor and the head brakeman testified that they gave no order to Roy Wilson or any one else to jerk off or pull off young Mitchell from the train.

   1896, California Superior Courts, Colorado Supreme Court, Kansas Supreme Court, et al., The Pacific Reporter, page 265

plural jerk offs · alternative abbreviation J-O · alternative abbreviation J/O

1. AustraliaCanadaUSalternativecountableidiomaticuncountableAlternative form of jerkoff (“an obnoxious person”).
2. AustraliaCanadaUScountableidiomaticuncountablevulgarAn act of masturbation.

   Synonyms: wank, toss, tug, fingering, beat one's meat, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank

3. AustraliaCanadaUScountableidiomaticuncountablebroadcastingA stunt in which the performer is suddenly pulled off a horse, etc. by means of a cable.

   He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.

   2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s