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beat oneself

beat oneself verb: to masturbate.

Verb

beat oneself (third-person singular simple present beats oneself, present participle beating oneself, simple past beat oneself, past participle beaten oneself)

  1. (slang) To masturbate.
  2. 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

Forms of beat oneself

third-person singular presentbeats oneself
present participlebeating oneself
pastbeat oneself
past participlebeaten oneself

Questions about beat oneself

What does beat oneself mean?
Beat oneself means to masturbate.
What part of speech is beat oneself?
Beat oneself is a verb.
What is the past tense of beat oneself?
The past tense of beat oneself is beat oneself.

Words near beat oneself in the dictionary

  1. beat one's face
  2. beat one's head against a stone wall
  3. beat one's meat
  4. beat one's swords into ploughshares
  5. beat one's swords into plowshares
  6. beat oneself
  7. beat out
  8. beat panel
  9. beat panels
  10. beat parries
  11. beat parry

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