English Explanatory Dictionary

JAQ off

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make tangential claims of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.

Word forms

JAQ off JAQs off JAQing off JAQed off

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.

Related words

argument from ignorance
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