wank
/ˈwæŋk/
wank verb: to masturbate.
Verb
wank (third-person singular simple present wanks, present participle wanking, simple past and past participle wanked)
- To masturbate.
- I was so embarrassed when my mother caught me wanking.
- She wanked me in the morning.
- Synonyms:
- abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon, jack off
- To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
Noun
wank (countable and uncountable, plural wanks)
- An act of masturbation.
- He’s having a wank!
- Synonyms:
- jerk off, toss, tug, fingering, beat one's meat, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo
- An undesirable person.
- You utter wank! How could you behave like that?
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- This opera is wank.
- Did you see that thing on Channel 4? Yeah, it was wank.
- Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
- Synonyms:
- wankery
- Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
- Sometimes those involved in the wank will attempt to steer discussion by disguising themselves with a different user name and posting their own support.2010, Karen Hellekson, “History, the Trace, and Fandom Wank”, in Heather Urbanski, editor, Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, page 64
- As we've seen, the wank that broke out at the very first Supernatural fan convention (Asylum) in Coventry, UK in 2007 was partly inspired by Jensen Ackles' joke about Wincest.2011, Katherine Larsen, Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 156
Proper noun capitalized: Wank
Wank
- A surname.
wank meaning in Malayalam, Malay and Indonesian
wank in Malayalam
- വിഷയലമ്പടനായ, സ്വയം ഭോഗതൽപരനായ
wank in Malay
- intransitive: to masturbate (oneself)
- melancap, main sabun
- transitive: to masturbate
- melancapkan
wank in Indonesian
- act of masturbation
- coli, cokil
Synonyms of wank
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- jack it
- jerk
- jerk it
- jerk the gherkin
- jerk off
- jerk one off
- jerk one out
- jork it
- knock one out
- make the bald man cry
- masturbate
- mastuprate
- play pocket pool
- play with oneself
- pleasure oneself
- rub one off
- rub one out
- self-abuse
- self-pollute
- service oneself
- skeet
- stroke
- toss
- toss off
- touch oneself
- wank off
- whack off
- yank
- tug
- fingering
Forms of wank
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | wanks |
| present participle | wanking |
| past participle | wanked |
| past | wanked |
| Noun | |
| plural | wanks |
Origin of wank
Origin unknown. First known use as a verb is 1905, as a noun 1948. Perhaps compare regional slang term wang, whang (“to whack or beat”). Compare Dutch wanken (“to move back and forth; move with the hands”).
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Phrases with wank
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Questions about wank
- What does wank mean?
- Wank means to masturbate.
- What is wank in Malayalam?
- Wank in Malayalam is വിഷയലമ്പടനായ, സ്വയം ഭോഗതൽപരനായ. See Wank meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is wank?
- Wank can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wank?
- Wank is pronounced /ˈwæŋk/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of wank?
- The past tense of wank is wanked.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wank (page history and authors); Wank (page history and authors); wank (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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