hand shandy
British vulgar slang for masturbation, using 'shandy' (a mild beer-and-lemonade drink) in a darkly humorous double-entendre.
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British vulgar slang for masturbation, using 'shandy' (a mild beer-and-lemonade drink) in a darkly humorous double-entendre. The juxtaposition of a mundane, mildly abstemious British drink with a sexual act is characteristic of British crude-comic slang. The register is firmly vulgar but consistently tipped toward humor rather than aggression or offense. The absurdity is the whole point. The mismatch between the wholesome drink and the act is the entire joke.
The comedian's routine about settling for a hand shandy got the biggest laugh of the night.
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British vulgar slang for masturbation. The phrase is humorous and quintessentially British in its approach to vulgarity — combining the mundane (shandy, a mixed beer drink) with the act in a way that's more comic than crude. It's the kind of phrase that shows up in British comedy and lads' banter, not taken too seriously but definitely not polite company territory.
"What did you get up to last night?" "Takeaway and a hand shandy, honestly."
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(vulgar, slang) An act of masturbation.
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