"jack off" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-jack off.wav Forms: jack offs [plural], J-O [alternative, abbreviation], J/O [alternative, abbreviation]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} jack off (plural jack offs)
  1. Nonstandard spelling of jackoff (“a jerkoff”). Tags: Canada, US, alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: jackoff (extra: a jerkoff)
    Sense id: en-jack_off-en-noun-OnsFmRCP

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-jack off.wav Forms: jacks off [present, singular, third-person], jacking off [participle, present], jacked off [participle, past], jacked off [past], J-O [alternative, abbreviation], J/O [alternative, abbreviation]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} jack off (third-person singular simple present jacks off, present participle jacking off, simple past and past participle jacked off), {{tlb|en|chiefly|North America}} (chiefly Canada, US)
  1. (ambitransitive or reflexive, slang, vulgar, derogatory) To masturbate. Tags: Canada, US, ambitransitive, derogatory, reflexive, slang, vulgar Derived forms: jackoff [noun], JAQ off Related terms: jack it, jerk off
    Sense id: en-jack_off-en-verb-~E9p9hIT Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "off", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Masturbation Disambiguation of American English: 27 64 10 Disambiguation of Canadian English: 16 80 4 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 88 3 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "off": 14 80 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 88 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 90 3 Disambiguation of Masturbation: 1 98 1 Synonyms: jerk off, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, jack off [US], jack it, jerk it, jerk off [US], jork it, knock one out, masturbate, mastuprate, play pocket pool [Britain], play with oneself, pleasure oneself, rub one out, self-abuse, self-pollute, service oneself, skeet [Canada], toss [Britain], toss off [UK], touch oneself, wank [Britain], wank off [Britain], whack off
  2. (slang, vulgar, derogatory) To stimulate or please oneself in an unproductive or idle way. Tags: Canada, US, derogatory, slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-jack_off-en-verb-scbS4V4Y

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.