Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. an act of masturbation, performed by a partner; often offered as such in a prostitute’s price list.

1939		P. Di Donato Christ in Concrete 107: If you death-murdered cocks desire not to work [...] go into the cellar and do the hand-job!!!
1949		J.H. Burns Lucifer with a Book 304: I tell ya I can’t stand it. Gonna gimme a handjob before the evenin gets much older.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 90/2: Hand-job. (P) Masturbation practiced upon another.
1963		in T.I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 11: This here guy comes over [...] and the next thing is playing with my dick [...] gives me a hand job.
1969		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 373: On the first day of finals my true love gave to me, / A hand job in a pear tree.
1974		(con. 1960s) R. Price Wanderers 5: The night she gave him his first hand job.
1981		A.K. Shulman On the Stroll 135: If you just can’t afford to lose the bucks [...] then you could give him a hand job.
1985		‘Thommo’ Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 66: HAND JOB — Male or female masturbation.
1989		(con. 1956) P. Theroux My Secret Hist. (1990) 6: She used to give hand-jobs.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 14: The Pepper Patch girls always made money because they freelanced handjobs under the tables and blowjobs in the backbooths.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 322: I could give you a very nice hand job.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Real Life 30 Jan. 3: The Eighties were all about masturbation. But how much better a quick hand-job than the self-denial of the frigid Nineties.
2005		L. Redhead Rubdown [ebook] You ever given a handjob before?
2008		T. Dorsey Atomic Lobster 36: I just dance naked at the Red Snapper. Or hand jobs in the massage parlor.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 30: ‘They stay out there all night?’ [...] ‘Giving each other hand jobs probably’.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 134: Ah’m sure billy’s telt him the story ay Davie’s hand job.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 32: One evening, pashing in the back of Dad’s 1965 Corolla, I reach down to give, as the French say, pignolette. (Or, as the Aussies say, a hand job.).
2023		F. Bill Back to the Dirt 11: Picked up young whores for a five-dollar hand job or a ten-dollar suck-and-fuck.

2. (US) an act of insincere flattery; a deceptive statement.

1972

J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 132: Whoever the big shot is gets a hand job about how the department turned things upside down looking for his daughter.

3. any form of deceit, misinformation.

1979		E. Torres After Hours 120: I think Kleinfeld’s giving us a handjob.
1984		W.J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 190: Malone thought, You’re giving me a handjob, Anderson.

4. (US) an obnoxious person.

1986		Stinson & Carabatsos Heartbreak 88: What handjob had put on the wrong [shirt]? [HDAS].
1995		N.Y. Press 27 Sept. 1: Handjob strolling up Broadway, cellphone to his biscuit [HDAS].