beat oneself

English

Verb

beat oneself (third-person singular simple present beats oneself, present participle beating oneself, simple past beat oneself, past participle beaten oneself)

  1. (slang) To masturbate.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat.
    • 1920, Mary Heaton Vorse, Growing Up:
      It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish beating themselves on the floor.