English
Etymology
An alteration of jerk (“to masturbate”). Coined by Twitter/X user @laterundulator on May 2, 2023 (see quotation below).
Pronunciation
Verb
jork (third-person singular simple present jorks, present participle jorking, simple past and past participle jorked)
- (transitive, Internet slang) To jerk (masturbate).
- jork it
Don't come in! I'm busy jorking my shit!
2023 May 2, @laterundulator, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 9 June 2023:in the stripped club. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr[sic] say. My peanits
2024 December 28, @goreyuna, Twitter[2]:one last jork before the year ends
2025 March 22, @KwernTV, Twitter[3]:What's crazy is this is basically my morning routine as well but replace every instance of working out with a cheeky lil jork.
2025 May 15, Matt Novak, “Grok AI’s Funniest Tweets About ‘White Genocide’ in South Africa”, in Gizmodo[4]:One person asked if Grok could “jork it a little” on Thursday. And the AI somehow went right into white genocide garbage.