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aftrekken.

to pull off

9 characters3 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈɑftrɛkə(n)/
  1. to pull off

    transitive
  2. to subtract

    transitive
  3. to clean/level etc. with a squeegee

    transitive
  4. to wank, to jerk off, to give a hand job; to stimulate one's own or another person's penis using the hand

    informal · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch aftrecken. The sense “to subtract” was coined by Simon Stevin as a calque of Latin dētrahō. Equivalent to af + trekken.

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