JAQ off

English

Etymology

Blend of JAQ (“just asking questions”) +‎ jack off (“to masturbate”); because of the former phrase originally chiefly used in the gerund form, and so coined by a user of the James Randi Educational Foundation’s International Skeptics Forum on 14th September 2006 about truthers.

Verb

JAQ off (third-person singular simple present JAQs off, present participle JAQing off, simple past and past participle JAQed off)

1. (slang, derogatory) To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviours, in an attempt to make tangential claims of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.

See also

• argument from ignorance

Further reading

• RationalWiki