Phrase guide

jerk off

noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Alternative form of jerkoff (“an obnoxious person”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, alt-of, alternative, countable, idiomatic, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An act of masturbation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, countable, idiomatic, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wank, toss, tug, fingering, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, milking the sausage, onanism, peeling the cucumber, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, self-pollution, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, solipsism, solitary vice, spanking the monkey, tossing off

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A stunt in which the performer is suddenly pulled off a horse, etc. by means of a cable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, countable, idiomatic, uncountable

Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar

Examples

  • My partner and I jerk off together sometimes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jack off, abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon, 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, wank off, whack off, yank

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To manually stimulate someone else's penis; to give a hand job.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, transitive, vulgar

Examples

  • She jerked me off with both hands and it felt so good I almost started crying.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To do nothing; to waste time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar

Examples

  • Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To deceive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, idiomatic, transitive, vulgar

Examples

  • He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jerk, off.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, US, dated, idiomatic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

get sexual gratification through self-stimulation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stimulate, excite, stir

Narrower terms: scarf

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: bie me dorë — to masturbate
  • Armenian: ժաժ տալ (žaž tal) — to masturbate
  • Azerbaijani: kəfləmə atmaq — to masturbate
  • Azerbaijani: kəfləmə vurmaq — to masturbate
  • Azerbaijani: suxoy atmaq — to masturbate
  • Azerbaijani: suxoy vurmaq — to masturbate
  • Belarusian: драчы́ць (dračýcʹ) — to masturbate
  • Central Bikol: jakol — to masturbate
  • Bulgarian: мастурбирам (masturbiram) — to masturbate
  • Catalan: pelar-se-la — to masturbate
  • Chinese Cantonese: 打炮 (daa2 paau3) — to masturbate
  • Chinese: 拍手銃 /拍手铳 (zh-min-nan) — to masturbate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 打手槍 /打手枪 (dǎ shǒuqiāng) — to masturbate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 打飛機 /打飞机 (dǎ fēijī) — to masturbate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 見伍姑娘 /见伍姑娘 (jiàn Wǔ gūniang) — to masturbate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 打炮 (dǎpào) — to masturbate
  • Czech: vyhonit si — to masturbate
  • Czech: honit si — to masturbate
  • Danish: spille pik — to masturbate
  • Danish: gokke den af — to masturbate
  • Danish: rive den af — to masturbate
  • Dutch: rukken — to masturbate
  • Dutch: aftrekken — to masturbate
  • Estonian: pihku peksma — to masturbate
  • Estonian: pihku taguma — to masturbate
  • Estonian: onama — to masturbate
  • Faroese: fleyga sær — to masturbate
  • Finnish: runkata — to masturbate
  • Finnish: vetää käteen — to masturbate
  • French: se branler — to masturbate
  • West-Frisian: lobje — to masturbate
  • Georgian: ნძრევა (nʒreva) — to masturbate
  • Georgian: ანძრევს (anʒrevs) — to masturbate
  • German: wichsen — to masturbate
  • German: sich einen runterholen — to masturbate
  • German: Boa würgen — to masturbate
  • Greek: τα ξύνω (ta xýno) — to masturbate
  • Ancient Greek: δέφομαι (déphomai) — to masturbate
  • Hebrew: עשה ביד — to masturbate
  • Hebrew: הביא ביד — to masturbate
  • Hungarian: maszturbál — to masturbate
  • Hungarian: hokizik — to masturbate
  • Hungarian: kiveri — to masturbate
  • Icelandic: runka sér — to masturbate
  • Italian: farsi una sega — to masturbate
  • Japanese: 抜く (nuku) — to masturbate
  • Japanese: マスをかく (masu o kaku) — to masturbate
  • Japanese: シコる (shikoru) — to masturbate
  • Korean: 수음하다 (sueumhada) — to masturbate
  • Korean: 자위하다 (jawihada) — to masturbate
  • Korean: 딸치다 (ttalchida) — to masturbate
  • Northern Kurdish: ji xwe ber dan — to masturbate
  • Northern Kurdish: xwe têr kirin — to masturbate
  • Latin: glubo — to masturbate
  • Lithuanian: smaukyti — to masturbate
  • Maltese: ġerrieh — to masturbate
  • Polish: walić konia — to masturbate
  • Polish: trzepać gruchę — to masturbate
  • Portuguese: tocar punheta — to masturbate
  • Portuguese: bater punheta — to masturbate
  • Romanian: a face labă — to masturbate
  • Romanian: fute o labă — to masturbate
  • Romanian: a și-o freca — to masturbate
  • Russian: дрочи́ть (dročítʹ) — to masturbate
  • Serbo-Croatian: дркати — to masturbate
  • Serbo-Croatian: drkati — to masturbate
  • Sicilian: minarisilla — to masturbate
  • Slovene: dŕkati — to masturbate
  • Spanish: pajearse — to masturbate
  • Spanish: cascarse — to masturbate
  • Spanish: pelársela — to masturbate
  • Swedish: runka — to masturbate
  • Swedish: handtralla — to masturbate
  • Tagalog: jakol — to masturbate
  • Thai: ชักว่าว (chák-wâao) — to masturbate
  • Turkish: otuzbir çekmek — to masturbate
  • Turkish: otuz bir çekmek — to masturbate
  • Ukrainian: дрочи́ти (dročýty) — to masturbate
  • Vietnamese: quay tay — to masturbate
  • Welsh: halio bant — to masturbate
  • Welsh: wancio — to masturbate