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jack off

[jak] Origin

jack

1[jak]
noun
1.
any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
2.
Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
3.
Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
4.
(initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?
5.
Also called jackstone. Games.
a.
one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks.
b.
one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks.
c.
jacks, (used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball.
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6.
any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle), of the western Atlantic Ocean.
7.
Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races.
8.
Slang: Vulgar.. jack shit.
9.
Nautical.
a.
a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel.
b.
Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast.
10.
(initial capital letter) a sailor.
11.
a lumberjack.
14.
a jackass.
16.
a device for turning a spit.
17.
a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string.
18.
Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
19.
Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
20.
a premigratory young male salmon.
21.
Theater. brace jack.
22.
Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
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verb (used with object)
23.
to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire.
24.
Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up).
25.
Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
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Jack off is always a great word to know.
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
verb (used without object)
27.
adjective
28.
Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
29.
jack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
30.
every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English jakke, Jakke used in addressing any male, especially a social inferior, variant of Jakken, variant of Jankin, equivalent to Jan John + -kin -kin; extended in sense to anything male, and as a designation for a variety of inanimate objects
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jerk off or (US) jack off
 
vb
slang (adverb often reflexive) (of a male) to masturbate
 
usage  This word was formerly considered to be taboo, and it was labelled as such in previous editions of Collins English Dictionary. However, it has now become acceptable in speech, although some older or more conservative people may object to its use
 
jack off or (US) jack off
 
vb
 
usage  This word was formerly considered to be taboo, and it was labelled as such in previous editions of Collins English Dictionary. However, it has now become acceptable in speech, although some older or more conservative people may object to its use

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Word Origin & History

jack
1873, jack up, originally "abandon, give up," later (1885) "hoist with a jack;" then "increase prices, etc." (1904, Amer.Eng.), all from the noun. Jack off (v.) "to masturbate" is attested from 1916, probably from jack in the sense of "penis."
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Slang Dictionary

beat off definition


and ball off; jack off; jag off; jerk off; pull (oneself)
  1. in.
    to masturbate. (Usually objectionable.) : They say if you beat off too much, you'll get pimples.
  2. in.
    to waste time; to waste one's efforts; to do something inefficiently. : The whole lot of them were jacking off rather than sticking to business. , Stop whanking off and get on with your work!
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jack (sth) definition


  1. tv.
    to raise the price of something. : They kept jacking the price up with various charges, so I walked.
  2. tv.
    to mess something up. : Who jacked up the papers on my desk?
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Idioms & Phrases

jack off

see jerk off.

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