circle jerk

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>HDAS has circle jerk as a mess since 1973.  I don't have anything
>earlier, but it is fairly common in this sense.

I think this is about like "cluster f*ck" (literally "orgy" I suppose),
"goat f*ck", "pooch screw", etc.

Instead of getting their job done, the participants are engaged in
undisciplined, undignified, useless activity: e.g., metaphorically, group
sex or sex with animals. That's how I picture it anyway. These all seem
sort of military, I think.

-- Doug Wilson