circle jerk
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circle jerk
noun circle jerks · circle-jerk · circlejerk
- A group of people jerking off (“masturbating”) together (with or without interpersonal contact). Three screaming queens, the Abbot, the Abbes an the Bishop, who hold circle jerks in their rooms for other students with similar proclivities.
- Any group or group activity indulging in excessive mutual praise. 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.
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An environment (especially an online community) in which people express or validate a narrow set of ideas and feelings.
You should join a circle jerk community if you like this so much.
Similar: echo chamber, filter bubble, hugbox, mutual admiration society
- 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. 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 ag
- A person who shares syringes when injecting drugs.
verb circle jerks · circle jerking · circle jerked · circle-jerk · circlejerk
- To participate in a circle jerk.
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noun online echo chamber
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