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• beat the meat

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beat one's meat (third-person singular simple present beats one's meat, present participle beating one's meat, simple past beat one's meat, past participle beaten one's meat or beat one's meat)

1. (euphemistic, slang) To masturbate manually by stroking or rubbing one's penis.
   • 1948, Psychiatric quarterly (New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene), volume 22, page 243:I beat my meat instead of having intercourse.
   • 1967, American Academy of Psychotherapists, Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, page 41:7. Is masturbation harmful? Does it cause acne, etc.?8. How does a girl beat her meat?
   • 1977, “Orgasm Addict”, performed by Buzzcocks:You get in a heat, you get in a sulkBut you still keep a-beating your meat to pulpAnd you're an orgasm addict,
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 143:After that greatest Peeper since Tom, Duck Prick-puller Allsop, had made watching bowers where he could lie in comfort and see the sex-active grubs and molls at it, beat his own meat and pleasure himself with some smooth thick stick.
2. (slang, by extension) To waste time; to engage in an unproductive activity.
   • 1991, William Barton, Michael Capobianco, Fellow Traveler, Spectra, →ISBN:He had had the theory that all this space stuff was just the Soviet Union beating its meat, shooting off into space. Other than that he couldn't imagine the slightest use for it all. Space was, after all, space — with nothing in it.

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• (masturbate): see Thesaurus:masturbate
• (waste time): fanny about; spin one's wheels

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[edit] vulgar: to masturbate

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Albanian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: please add this translation if you can Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: aftrekken (nl), rukken (nl) Finnish: tumputtaa (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: sich einen runterholen Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Italian: farsi una sega (literally “to give oneself a sawing”), lucidarsi l'uccello (literally “to polish one's own bird”) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Polish: walić konia (pl) impf Portuguese: bater uma Romanian: da laba, face laba, fute laba, și-o freca (ro) Russian: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can Latin: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

vulgar: to waste time

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