Meaning of circle jerk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A group of people jerking off (“masturbating”) together (with or without interpersonal contact).
   slang, vulgar
2. Any group or group activity indulging in excessive mutual praise.
   derogatory, slang, vulgar
3. An environment (especially an online community) in which people express or validate a narrow set of ideas and feelings.
   Internet, slang, vulgar
4. A situation in which a group of people engage in self-indulgent or self-gratifying behavior, especially by reinforcing each other's views or attitudes.
   derogatory, slang, vulgar
5. A person who shares syringes when injecting drugs.
   slang, vulgar

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Examples

“Three screaming queens, the Abbot, the Abbes an the Bishop, who hold circle jerks in their rooms for other students with similar proclivities.”

“This is Melville's real heaven, an all-male platoon, each with his hand in someone's pocket. The circle jerk is another Romantic uroboros.”

“When organisations celebrate their anniversaries you can usually expect a dull circle jerk of self-congratulation, so the BBC played a blinder in getting Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse to do it for them. Patting yourself on the back looks better when you send yourself up.”

“You should join a circle jerk community if you like this so much.”

“There is a long line of these types, some cleverer than others: Rod Liddle, Richard Littlejohn and Jeremy Clarkson, with Toby Young, James Delingpole and Martin Daubney on the subs’ bench. They present as dissenting voices, speaking truth to the elite. In reality, they just preach to people their age. To call this circle jerk of intolerance a culture war is to ennoble it.”

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