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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wank</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wango.html" title="wango"/><link rel="next" href="wannabee.html" title="wannabee"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wank</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wango.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wannabee.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wank"/><dt xmlns="" id="wank"><b>wank</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wangk/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,v.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Columbia University: prob.: by mutation from Commonwealth slang
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<span class="grammar">v.</span> <span class="firstterm">wank</span>, to masturbate] Used much as
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<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a> is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever
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technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe
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(negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake (“<span class="quote">Quit wanking,
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let's go get supper!</span>”) or (more positively) a
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<a href="wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>. Adj. <span class="firstterm">wanky</span> describes something particularly clever
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(a person, program, or algorithm). Conversations can also get wanky when
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there are too many wanks involved. This excess wankiness is signalled by
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an overload of the <span class="firstterm">wankometer</span>
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(compare <a href="../B/bogometer.html"><i class="glossterm">bogometer</i></a>). When the wankometer overloads,
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the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave.
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Compare <span class="firstterm">neep-neeping</span> (under
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<a href="../N/neep-neep.html"><i class="glossterm">neep-neep</i></a>). Usage: U.S. only. In Britain and the
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Commonwealth this word is <span class="emphasis"><em>extremely</em></span> rude and is best
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avoided unless one intends to give offense. Adjectival <span class="firstterm">wanky</span> is less offensive and simply means
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‘stupid’ or ‘broken’ (this is mainstream in Great
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Britain). </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wango.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wannabee.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wango </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wannabee</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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