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JAQ off

JAQ off verb: to ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make one's tangential accusations of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.

Verb

JAQ off (third-person singular simple present JAQs off, present participle JAQing off, simple past and past participle JAQed off)

  1. (derogatory, slang) To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make one's tangential accusations of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.

Forms of JAQ off

third-person singular presentJAQs off
present participleJAQing off
past participleJAQed off
pastJAQed off

Origin of JAQ off

Blend of JAQ (“just asking questions”) + jack off (“to masturbate”); because of the former phrase originally chiefly used in the gerund form, and so coined by a user of the James Randi Educational Foundation’s International Skeptics Forum on 14th September 2006 about truthers.

Questions about JAQ off

What does JAQ off mean?
JAQ off means to ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make one's tangential accusations of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.
What part of speech is JAQ off?
JAQ off is a verb.
What is the past tense of JAQ off?
The past tense of JAQ off is JAQed off.

Words near JAQ off in the dictionary

  1. japygid
  2. japygids
  3. japygoid
  4. japygoids
  5. JAQ
  6. JAQ off
  7. Jaqai
  8. Jaqaru
  9. JAQed off
  10. JAQing off
  11. JAQs

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