beat one's meat

Definitions

1. 1

   To masturbate manually by stroking or rubbing one's penis.

   • I beat my meat instead of having intercourse.
   • 7. Is masturbation harmful? Does it cause acne, etc.? 8. How does a girl beat her meat?
   • You get in a heat, you get in a sulk But you still keep a-beating your meat to pulp And you're an orgasm addict,
2. 2

   To waste time

   To waste time; to engage in an unproductive activity.

   • He had had the theory that all this space stuff was just the Soviet Union beating its meat, shooting off into space. Other than that he couldn't imagine the slightest use for it all. Space was, after all, space — with nothing in it.

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