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JAQ off en · VERB

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.

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
JAQs off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
JAQing off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
JAQed off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
JAQed off Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

sealion

Relateds

argument from ignorance

wikipedia: James Randi Educational Foundation