# JAQ off

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make tangential claims of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.

## Etymology
Blend of JAQ (“just asking questions”) + jack off (“to masturbate”); because of the former phrase originally chiefly used in the gerund form, and so coined by a user of the James Randi Educational Foundation’s International Skeptics Forum on 14th September 2006 about truthers.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/jaq-off