# How many ways can we say male masterbation?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 16, 2000, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831 "2000-03-16T17:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/1 "2000-03-16T17:03:00Z")

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Here’s my contribution:

Pumping the Bishop

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Yours truly,  
aha

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**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/2 "2000-03-16T17:06:00Z")

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Spanking the monkey.

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“I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket

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**Author:** ![kknick34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kknick34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kknick34)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/3 "2000-03-16T17:11:00Z")

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Cuffing the Bishop  
Clown Boxing  
Waxing the Dolphin

I was at a George Carlin show were he came up with at least 50 ways to say male masterbation, but could only come up with 3 ways say female masterbation

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**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/4 "2000-03-16T17:31:00Z")

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Pull over.

Do you know why I stopped you? Exactly.

I’m going to let you off with a warning. On your journey. Don’t let me catch you again.

It’s “masturbation.”

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**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/5 "2000-03-16T17:34:00Z")

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And we all know what it is and how to do it. So why do we have to have some alternate name for it?

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**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/6 "2000-03-16T17:37:00Z")

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Like “Floggin’ the Dog”?

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/7 "2000-03-16T17:46:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by WallyM7:  
> \*\*Pull over.
> 
> Do you know why I stopped you? Exactly.
> 
> I’m going to let you off with a warning. On your journey. Don’t let me catch you again.
> 
> It’s “masturbation.”\*\*

Thanks Walley and glad you are feeling ok!

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Yours truly,  
aha

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/8 "2000-03-16T17:48:00Z")

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oh and another contribution:

Lopin the mule

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Yours truly,  
aha

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**Author:** ![Rollin\_a\_Bone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@Rollin\_a\_Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollin_a_Bone)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/9 "2000-03-16T17:52:00Z")

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“dating the palm sisters”

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**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/10 "2000-03-16T17:53:00Z")

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“Pull Over”

I thought for a minute that was Wally’s contribution to the OP.

Wackin’ Off

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/11 "2000-03-17T06:08:00Z")

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beating the meat, yanking the crank, slamming the ham, whipping the willy…

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**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/12 "2000-03-17T06:19:00Z")

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Gettin’ jizzy wit it. 🙂  
Rose

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I told you not to be stupid, you moron.

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**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/13 "2000-03-17T06:57:00Z")

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Having a tug of war with cyclops.

Dating Rosy Palm and her five sisters.

Pullin’ pud.

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You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing.

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/14 "2000-03-16T19:11:00Z")

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Slappin’ the salami.

Beatin’ the meat.

(female)Knocking the little man out of the boat.

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Mike Mulligan had a steam shovel,  
a beautiful red steam shovel.  
Her name was Mary Anne.

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/15 "2000-03-16T19:12:00Z")

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Sorry RTF, brain fart…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/16 "2000-03-16T19:16:00Z")

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377 ways:

1 Michael Mastersonbation  
2 Arm-wrestle with your one-eyed vessel  
3 Attack the one-eyed purple-headed warrior  
4 Audition the finger puppets  
5 Audition your hand puppet  
6 Backstroke roulette  
7 Bash the candle  
8 Battle with the Purple Helmeted Warrior of Love  
9 Be your own best friend  
10 Beat off  
11 Beat the Bishop  
12 Beat the bologna  
13 Beat the dummy  
14 Beat the meat  
15 Beat the pud  
16 Beat the stick  
17 Beat up your date  
18 Beef tips stroking off  
19 Bleed the weed  
20 Blow your load  
21 Blow your own horn  
22 Bludgeon the beefsteak  
23 Bop the bippy  
24 Bop the bologna  
25 Bop the bonzo  
26 Box the Jesuit  
27 Box with Richard  
28 Buff the banana  
29 Bugger your hand  
30 Burp the baby  
31 Burp the worm  
32 Butter the corn  
33 Caning the vandal  
34 Charm the snake  
35 Check for testicular cancer  
36 Cheese off  
37 Choke Kojak  
38 Choke the chicken  
39 Choke the sheriff and wait for the posse to come  
40 Clamp the pipe  
41 Clean your rifle  
42 Clear the snorkel  
43 Climb the tree  
44 Closet Frisbee  
45 Come into your own  
46 Cook the cream of cock  
47 Corral your tadpole  
48 Couch hockey for one  
49 Crank the love pump  
50 Crank the shank  
51 Crimp the wire  
52 Crown the king  
53 Cuddle the kielbasa  
54 Cuff the carrot  
55 Daisy-chaining  
56 Date Miss Michigan  
57 Date Mrs. Palmer and Her five daughters  
58 Date Rosie Palm and her five sisters  
59 Defrosting the fridge  
60 Diddle  
61 Digital penile oscillation  
62 Do It Your Way  
63 Do handiwork  
64 Do the White Knuckler  
65 Do the janitor thing  
66 Drain the monster  
67 Dry humping the ottoman  
68 Electing the President  
69 Engage in safe sex  
70 Exercise one’s right  
71 Feed the ducks  
72 Fiddle the flesh flute  
73 Fist fuck  
74 Fist your mister  
75 Five knuckle shuffle  
76 Five-knuckle-shuffle on the old piss pump  
77 Flick your Bic  
78 Fling your phallus  
79 Flip the Bishop  
80 Flog the Bishop  
81 Flog the dog  
82 Flog the dolphin  
83 Flog the dong  
84 Flog the hog  
85 Flog the log  
86 Flog the mule  
87 Fly fishing  
88 Fondle your flagpole  
89 Free Willy  
90 Friggit  
91 Frost the pastries  
92 Gallop the antelope  
93 Gallop the old lizard  
94 Genital stimulation via phallengetic motion  
95 Get a date with Slick Mittens  
96 Get chafed  
97 Get off  
98 Get the German soldier marching  
99 Get to know yourself  
100 Get your pole varnished  
101 Give it a tug  
102 Give your low five  
103 Go a couple of rounds with ol’ Josh  
104 Go blind  
105 Go on a date with Fisty Palmer  
106 Go on a date with Handrea and Palmela  
107 Go the blow  
108 Goose the gherkin  
109 Grease the pipe  
110 Hack the hog  
111 Hand job  
112 Hand shandy  
113 Hard labor  
114 Have one off the wrist  
115 Hitchhike to heaven  
116 Hitchhike underneath the big top  
117 Hold the Bishop  
118 Hold the sausage hostage  
119 Hone the cone  
120 Honk your horn  
121 Hug the hog  
122 Human version of AUTOEXEC.BAT  
123 Hump your hose  
124 Jack hammer  
125 Jack off  
126 Jazz yourself  
127 Jerk  
128 Jerk Jamby  
129 Jerk it  
130 Jerk off  
131 Jerk the gherkin  
132 Jizzlob  
133 JocelynEldering  
134 Kick your roommate out for five to ten minutes to “call your parents”  
135 Look for ticks  
136 Lope the mule  
137 Love the muppet  
138 Love’s labors lost  
139 Make a foreskin cone  
140 Make instant pudding  
141 Make the bald man puke  
142 Making soup  
143 Mangle the midget  
144 Manipulate the mango  
145 Manual labor  
146 Manual override  
147 Master Bacon, meet Rosie Hancock  
148 Meat with Mother Thumb and her four daughters  
149 Milk the Lizard  
150 Milk the cow  
151 Milk the moose  
152 Milk the self  
153 Milking the lizard  
154 Mount a corporal and four  
155 Much goo about nothing  
156 Nerk your throbber  
157 Null the void  
158 Oil the glove  
159 Onan’s olympics  
160 One gun salute  
161 One man band  
162 One-night-stand with yourself  
163 Pack your palm  
164 Paddle the pickle  
165 Paint the ceiling  
166 Paint the pickle  
167 Palm the calm  
168 Peel some chilis  
169 Peel the banana  
170 Perform diagnostics on your ManTool  
171 Pet the lizard  
172 Pip the pumpkin  
173 Play Uno  
174 Play a little five-on-one  
175 Play a one stringed guitar  
176 Play five against one  
177 Play in a one-man show  
178 Play peek-a-boo  
179 Play pocket pinball  
180 Play pocket pool  
181 Play tag with the pink torpedo  
182 Play the skin flute  
183 Play tug-o-war with Cyclops  
184 Play with your turtle (for uncircumcised guys)  
185 Playing the one-stringed melody  
186 Please your pisser  
187 Plunk your twanger  
188 Polish Percy in your palm  
189 Polish the Rocket  
190 Polish the family jewels  
191 Polish the helmet  
192 Polish the rock-hard staff of St. Peter  
193 Polish the rocket  
194 Polish the sword  
195 Pound off  
196 Pound the bald-headed moose  
197 Pound the pud  
198 Pound your flounder  
199 Pound your pud  
200 Prepare the carrot  
201 Prime the pump  
202 Pull off  
203 Pull rank  
204 Pull the bologna pony  
205 Pull the carrot  
206 Pull the cord  
207 Pull the goalie  
208 Pull the pole  
209 Pull the Pope  
210 Pull the pud  
211 Pull your own leg  
212 Pull your prick  
213 Pull your taffy  
214 Pump the python  
215 Pump the stump  
216 Punch the clown  
217 Punch the munchkin  
218 Punish Percy in your palm  
219 Ram the ham  
220 Relieve tension  
221 Ride the great white knuckler  
222 Roll your own  
223 Romeo and Himself  
224 Rope the pony  
225 Rope the Pope  
226 Rub off  
227 Rub one out  
228 Rub the pink eraser  
229 Run off a batch by hand  
230 Sacrifice sperm to the god of lonely nights  
231 Safest sex  
232 Sand wood  
233 Scour the tower of power  
234 Scratch the itch  
235 Secret handshake  
236 Self abuse  
237 Self-induced penile regurgitation  
238 Sex with someone you really love  
239 Shag  
240 Shake hands with Abe Lincoln  
241 Shake hands with Yul Brynner  
242 Shake hands with the midget  
243 Shake hands with the unemployed  
244 Shake hands with your John Thomas  
245 Shake hands with your wife’s best friend  
246 Shake the sauce  
247 Shake the sausage  
248 Shake the snake  
249 Shaling the snake  
250 Shellac the shillelagh  
251 Shemp the hog  
252 Shift gears  
253 Shine the helmet  
254 Shine your pole  
255 Shoot for the moon  
256 Shoot putty at the moon  
257 Shoot the airplane  
258 Shuck your corn  
259 Slakin’ the bacon  
260 Slam the ham  
261 Slam the salami  
262 Slam the salmon  
263 Slam the spam  
264 Slap high fives with Yul Brynner  
265 Slap it  
266 Slap pappy  
267 Slap the carrot  
268 Slap the clown  
269 Slap the donkey  
270 Slap the pud  
271 Slap the purple headed yogurt pistol  
272 Slap the salami  
273 Sling the jelly  
274 Smack off  
275 Smack the salami  
276 Snap the monkey  
277 Snap the rubber  
278 Snap the whip  
279 Solo flight  
280 Solo marathon  
281 Solo sex  
282 Spank Frank (or Elvis)  
283 Spank the Bishop  
284 Spank the frank  
285 Spank the monkey  
286 Spank the salami  
287 Spank the wank  
288 Squeeze the cheese  
289 Squeeze the juice  
290 Squeeze the toothpaste in the middle of the tube  
291 Squeeze your cheese-dog  
292 Stinky pinky  
293 Stir the batter  
294 Stir the yogurt  
295 Strain the main vein  
296 Stroke it  
297 Stroke off  
298 Stroke the carrot  
299 Stroke the dog  
300 Stroke the mole  
301 Stroke the one-eyed burping gecko  
302 Stroke the satin-headed serpent  
303 Stroke your poker  
304 S

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**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/17 "2000-03-16T19:30:00Z")

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Sure, H2.

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I like it here-can I stay?  
And do you have a vacancy for a Back-scrubber?

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/18 "2000-03-16T19:54:00Z")

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H2 - It looks like your social calender is booked up for the next twenty years… 😃

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/19 "2000-03-16T20:07:00Z")

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H2  
That is truly amazing…I am shaking my head in amazment right now.

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Yours truly,  
aha

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**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-ways-can-we-say-male-masterbation/14831/20 "2000-03-16T20:16:00Z")

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“The Colonel Sanders Heimleich Maneuver”?

“Romeo and Himself”?!?

## Buh HAHAHA!

You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing.

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