JAQ off
English
editEtymology
editBlend 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
editJAQ off (third-person singular simple present JAQs off, present participle JAQing off, simple past and past participle JAQed off)
- (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.
- Coordinate term: sealion