wank

Pronunciation

• (UK) (US) IPA ^(key): /wæŋk/

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Verb

Plain form wank

Third-person singular wanks

Past tense wanked

Past participle wanked

Present participle wanking

1. (intransitive) (vulgar) If you wank, you have sex alone, and touch your penis or vagina or breasts; you masturbate.
2. (transitive) (vulgar) If you wank, you touch another person's penis in a sexual way; to give a hand job.

Noun

Singular wank

Plural wanks

1. (countable) (slang) A wank is an act of masturbation.

   He’s having a wank.

2. (countable) (slang) A wank is an undesirable person.

   You utter wank!

3. (uncountable) (slang) Nonsense, rubbish, ridiculous.

   This opera is wank.

   Did you see that thing on Channel 4? Yeah, it was wank.

   This shit is a whole lot of wank.

Related words

• wanker
• wankery