rack off
Verb

rack off

  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see rack, off
    • 1824, Thomas Greene Fessenden, The New England Farmer, Volume 2, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UCdOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89&dq=%22rack|racks|racking|racked+off%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T_z3T6-8MYauiQeb-biDBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22rack|racks|racking|racked%20off%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 89],
      They do not, however, make use of their cider-spirit till they have racked off their cider, about the first of January.
  2. (Australia, informal) To go away; to sod off.
    Rack off, hairy legs!
    • 2002, Lydia Laube, Llama for Lunch, 2010, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=74P3jeKZJzMC&pg=PT39&dq=%22rack|racks|racking|racked+off%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2wf4T-a3MumiiAedibjRBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22rack|racks|racking|racked%20off%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
      The gorgeous mad Argentinian who came flying in like a whirlwind before racking off until the next day told me that my face is Argentinian. I hope that′s good.
    • 2005, Dan Crowley, Undercover Prop, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wOL49AgJUWsC&pg=PA164&dq=%22rack|racks|racking|racked+off%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2wf4T-a3MumiiAedibjRBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22rack|racks|racking|racked%20off%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 164],
      He came back at me with more trash talk and I said, ‘Rack off, mate. If you can′t talk sensibly to me, then scram.’
    • 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TMbbNLSwGjcC&pg=PT86&dq=%22rack|racks|racking|racked+off%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2wf4T-a3MumiiAedibjRBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22rack|racks|racking|racked%20off%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 83],
      Like many who travel abroad, I′m constantly consumed by hatred of Australians. Loud drunken bogans whose nasal accents cut through the humid Phuket air like a chainsaw: “Jesus Chroist, Aaron, just rack off, I’ve had a gutful.”
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