jerk off
English
Alternative forms
- J-O, J/O (abbreviation)
Pronunciation
Verb
jerk off (third-person singular simple present jerks off, present participle jerking off, simple past and past participle jerked off)Category:English lemmas#JERKOFFCategory:English verbs#JERKOFFCategory:English phrasal verbs#JERKOFFCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22off%22#JERKOFFCategory:English multiword terms#JERKOFFCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#JERKOFFCategory:Pages with entries#JERK%20OFFCategory:Pages with 1 entry#JERK%20OFF (idiomaticCategory:English idioms#JERKOFF, chiefly Canada, USCategory:Canadian English#JERKOFFCategory:American English#JERKOFF, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#JERKOFF)
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#JERKOFFCategory:English intransitive verbs#JERKOFF, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#JERKOFF) To masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.
- Synonyms: jack off; see also Thesaurus:masturbate
- My partner and I jerk off together sometimes.Category:English terms with usage examples#JERKOFF
- 1999, John Stoltenberg, The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood, page 245:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#JERKOFF
- 1999, Alan Ball (screenwriter), American Beauty (motion picture), spoken by Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey):
- Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here.Category:English terms with quotations#JERKOFF
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#JERKOFFCategory:English intransitive verbs#JERKOFF, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#JERKOFF) To 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#JERKOFF
- 1983 December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 7:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#JERKOFF
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#JERKOFF, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#JERKOFF) To do nothing; to waste time.
- Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.Category:English terms with usage examples#JERKOFF
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#JERKOFF, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#JERKOFF) To deceive.
- He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.Category:English terms with usage examples#JERKOFF
- (chiefly datedCategory:English dated terms#JERKOFF) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jerk, off.
- 1884, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Seventeenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for the Year 1883-84, page 32:
- I climb up in my trees myself, and jerk off the suckers in the trees.Category:English terms with quotations#JERKOFF
- 1896, California Superior Courts, Colorado Supreme Court, Kansas Supreme Court, et al., The Pacific Reporter, page 265:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#JERKOFF
Derived terms
- jerkoff (noun)
Related terms
Translations
Noun
jerk off (countable and uncountable, plural jerk offs)Category:English lemmas#JERKOFFCategory:English nouns#JERKOFFCategory:English uncountable nouns#JERKOFFCategory:English countable nouns#JERKOFFCategory:English countable nouns#JERKOFFCategory:English multiword terms#JERKOFFCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#JERKOFFCategory:Pages with entries#JERK%20OFFCategory:Pages with 1 entry#JERK%20OFF
- Alternative form of jerkoff (“an obnoxious person”).
- (vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#JERKOFF, USCategory:American English#JERKOFF) An act of masturbation.
- Synonyms: wank, toss, tug, fingering; see also Thesaurus:masturbation
- (filmCategory:en:Film#JERKOFF) A stunt in which the performer is suddenly pulled off a horse, etc. by means of a cable.
- 2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s:
- He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.Category:English terms with quotations#JERKOFF