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Meaning: (ambitransitive,vulgar)Tomasturbateby manually stimulating one's ownpenis.Synonyms:jack off;see alsoThesaurus:masturbateMy partner and Ijerk offtogether sometimes.1999,John Stoltenberg,The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood, page245:But to learn to love manhood, sooner or later you have to learn tojerk offin one particular way, to the exclusion of some other possible ways.1999,Alan Ball (screenwriter),American Beauty(motion picture), spoken by Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey):Look at me,jerking offin the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here.; (ambitransitive,vulgar)To manually stimulate someone else's penis; to give ahand job.Shejerkedmeoffwith both hands and it felt so good I almost started crying.1983December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, inGay Community News, volume11, number24, page 7:Once in cofessional[sic]I told a priest I hadjerked offanother 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.; (intransitive,vulgar)To do nothing; towaste time.Stopjerking off. We've got a deadline.; (transitive,vulgar)Todeceive.He wasjerkingus alloffabout how advanced the project was.; (chieflydated)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seejerk,off.1884, Ohio State Horticultural Society,Seventeenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for the Year 1883-84, page32:I climb up in my trees myself, andjerk offthe suckers in the trees.1896,California Superior Courts,Colorado Supreme Court,Kansas Supreme Court,et al.,The Pacific Reporter, page265:The conductor and the head brakeman testified that they gave no order to Roy Wilson or any one else tojerk offor pull off young Mitchell from the train.
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