Pittsburghism(?) "jagoff"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 11 03:30:19 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Dan Nussbaum <yekkey at aol.com> wrote:
> In New Jersey in the 50's "jack-off" meant masturbate.

The word for it that I learned back in the '40's, During The War.

HDAS has it from 1916.

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