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jerks off

jerks off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jerk off.

Meaning of jerk off

Verb

jerk off (third-person singular simple present jerks off, present participle jerking off, simple past and past participle jerked off)

  1. (Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar) To masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.
    • My partner and I jerk off together sometimes.
  2. (Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, transitive, vulgar) 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.
  3. (Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar) To do nothing; to waste time.
    • Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.
  4. (Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, transitive, vulgar) To deceive.
    • He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.
  5. (Australia, Canada, US, dated, idiomatic) Used 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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Jerks off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jerk off.

Words near jerks off in the dictionary

  1. jerkola
  2. jerkos
  3. jerks
  4. jerks around
  5. jerks it
  6. jerks off
  7. jerks one off
  8. jerks one out
  9. jerks over
  10. jerks the gherkin
  11. jerks up

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