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beat off

1. To send away; to force to retreat. Despite the connotation of "beat," this phrase is often used hyperbolically and does not have to reference violent action. Because their house is in such a great location, they have been beating off a lot of interested buyers. I somehow managed to beat off the intruder with a baseball bat. Your daughter is so pretty—it's only a matter of time until she's beating off the suitors!
2. vulgar slang To masturbate. Typically said of males. A: "Why is he all embarrassed today?" B: "Oh, his crush walked in on him beating off. How horrifying is that?"
See also: beat, off

wank off

1. vulgar slang To masturbate. Primarily heard in UK.
2. vulgar slang To bring someone else to orgasm with one's hand or hands, especially a male. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "wank" and "off." Primarily heard in UK.
3. rude slang To waste or pass time idly or by doing nothing or engaging in foolish behavior. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "wank" and "off." Primarily heard in UK. You've had enough time with your video games. Now, quit wanking off and help me clean up.
See also: off, wank
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

beat someone or something off

to drive someone or something away by beating. They beat the enemy off. The army beat off the savage attack, saving the town. I was able to beat off the intruder.
See also: beat, off
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

beat off

Repulse, drive away by blows, as in We tried to beat off the flying ants swarming about us. Originating in the mid-1600s in a military context, this term was being used for other activities by the mid-1700s.
See also: beat, off
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

beat off

v.
1. To drive someone or something away, especially by fighting or hitting: Two robbers attacked me on the subway, but I beat them off with my bag. After a long battle, the soldiers beat off the invaders.
2. To defeat someone or something in a competition: Our company intends to beat off our rivals for the contract. The visiting team was behind us for most of the game, but beat us off squarely in the end.
3. Vulgar Slang To masturbate. Used of males.
See also: beat, off

wank off

v. Vulgar Slang
To masturbate. Used of males.
See also: off, wank
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

beat off

and ball off and jack off and jag off and jerk off and pull oneself off and toss off and wack off and wank off and whack off and whank off and whip off
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!
See also: beat, off

wank off

verb
See beat off
See also: off, wank
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • beat off
  • chain (someone or something) to (something)
  • chain to
  • be a fate worse than death
  • and his mother
  • be out for blood
  • be out for/after (one's) scalp
  • scalp
  • out for blood
  • (one's) head on a plate/platter
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"Legal Aid supports some of the most vulnerable members of our community and I am honored to be a part of their efforts," said Wank. "I look forward to leading this organization following my predecessor, Steve Jaffe.
District chief, Zwani Khan Wank, confirmed the joint operation and arrests, but he had no information about the identity of the detainees.
She moves quickly from being the authority figure in his life to an annoying disturbance during his teens when he is trying to focus on a quiet wank. The scene when he visits her on his first return to South Africa is, in my view, the best described in the book, freighted as it is with a combination of intimacy and estrangement.
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Well, can you imagine Carol Smillie writhing with embarrassment as she announces, "I'm off to Wank in Bavaria"?
And unlike the strictly abstract, cerebral wank of much experimental work, their writing is steeped in feminist consciousness.
In May the foundation held a concert at the University of California, Los Angeles, featuring the band Wank. Dean Cheley, a student volunteer with UCLA Campus Events, says Quintana assembled the whole event.
But the film is a tired postmodern shrug, a wank. Its only honest emotion is the filmmaker's own ennui, best expressed by a director in the story, who whines, "Why make films in America?
"It is an opportunity for us to give back and help some of the most vulnerable children in our community," said Jeff Wank of Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky, Abate & Webb, who has chaired the tournament for the past three years.
Britain staged its first "masturbate-a-thon" last summer, aired by the UK's Channel 4 as part of a series of shows dubbed "Wank Week." The event saw up to 150 individuals pleasuring themselves at a converted photograph studio in London while raising money for charity.
"Below ground was for function, above ground was for celebration," said Rolf Ohlhausen, partner at Ohlhausen DuBois Architects, the firm that designed the renovation project in collaboration with engineering firm Wank Adams Slavin Asssociates.
Of course no one is, and unfortunately that's the film's fundamental problem: no one's willing to stop having a wank and get on with more important matters.