wank
Meanings
Plural: wanks
Noun
- slang for masturbation
- An act of masturbation.
- An undesirable person.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
- Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
Verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- To masturbate.
- To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, crank one out, fap, fingering, frig, fuck off, ham shank, hand job, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jack it, jack off, jacking off, jerk it, jerk off, jerking off, jork it, knock one out, lone rangering, manustupration, mastuprate, mastupration, masturbate, masturbation, milking the sausage, onanism, peeling the cucumber, play pocket pool, play with oneself, pleasure oneself, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, rub one out, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, self-pollute, self-pollution, service oneself, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, she-bop, skeet, solitary vice, spanking the monkey, toss, toss off, tossing off, touch oneself, tug, wank, wank off, wankery, whack off
Scrabble Score: 11
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