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Discover LudwigThe term "circle jerk" is correct and can be used in written English, but it is considered vulgar and crude
It is generally used to describe a situation where a group of people are engaging in self-congratulatory or pointless discussions or activities. Example: "The meeting today was just a circle jerk of the managers patting each other on the back and not making any real decisions."
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circle jerk
noun
A group of males masturbating ("jerking off") together (with or without interpersonal contact).
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"Fahrenheit 451 as authorial circle jerk?
Tim described it as "a massive intellectual circle jerk".
"For whatever it's worth, I think Iraq is a total circle jerk," he said.
As an actor, Bill Murray seems to exist on a separate plane, somewhere beyond Hollywood's usual ego-stroking circle jerk.
For food bores who like to tick off restaurants on a joyless list, it's a magnificent circle jerk.
"This isn't journalism; it's a Sag Harbor circle jerk," Huffington wrote in March, 2006, after Vanity Fair published a story defending Miller.
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But sounds like... the best of Circle Jerks, Clor, Minutemen, Hot Club de Paris and Devo too.
We first fell in love with the west coast bands such as Black Flag and the Circle Jerks, and especially the Descendents.
Temper tantrums of songs such as Destabilise recall the first, early 80s wave of US hardcore punks such as Minor Threat and Circle Jerks.
Egan namedrops the Dead Kennedys, the Circle Jerks, Patti Smith, and Black Flag — if the music's good, it's usually in the past: [Bennie] listened for muddiness, the sense of actual musicians playing actual instruments in an actual room.
He also tried being part of a punk duo with the former Circle Jerks bassist Sander Schloss in the mid-90's and has, at times, been an actor.
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