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The phrase "a wank" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal and can be considered vulgar.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to masturbation or as a slang term for something that is pointless or a waste of time.
Example: "I can't believe he spent the whole afternoon on that project; it was just a wank."
Alternatives: "a jerk-off" or "a wank-off".
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And there's a fat bloke having a wank!
So buy her, take her home and have a wank".
"I call it a wank stick," says Dr Christian.
Why not?' How many times have you seen a boy having a wank?
"I mean, if I was going to have a wank in my own life," she mused, over a lunch of spicy Thai meatballs, "I'd just have a wank".
You lie there desperate for a wank to relieve the tension but you can't move".
"Yeah," snarls Paul Simenon. "Lying on the floor, staring at the ceiling, having a wank".
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Obviously you don't have to give everyone you've taken on a stilted "two-Peronis-and-off-home-for-a-wank date a whole break-up speech.
A seagull was a "shite hawk", an officer was a "pig", a bed was a "wanking chariot".
I didn't confess that I could hardly reread Great Expectations as I hadn't ever read it in the first place; nor did I put in a wanking scene.
"Is that... a wanking devil in the background?" (I ask this as I'm smashing up a fat dude wearing a gimp suit).
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