To grind or chew. It sounds like masturbate so dumb fucks who are too lazy to figure out its real definition assume it means masturbate. It's a funny word and has power.

To chew something. Like steak. Not to be confused with masturbating

You see, the reason our town has the reputation it does is because the low life, section eight, welfare scumbag who commented before me is part of the problem. That person and his peers constantly ruin what my parents and so many other families in this community work so hard for. I was born and raised in Mastic went to Wm. Floyd high school and received an outstanding degree from a renown private College.

Yes, our town has problems like all towns but, what makes our town different from the best places to live on long island is actually pretty simple. It comes down to certain people in the community. You see, most of the population is hard working families trying to make a living who care for their property and maintain it the best they can. Then there are the people who graffiti and think they're gangster. They do nothing for our community besides bring it down. I find it so funny that people think mastic is the "hood" It makes me laugh when people say mastic has gangsters. What makes them oh so "gangster"? Because they look like poor people stuck in the 90's wearing pants 5 sizes to big with a white tee and a fitted hat over their ears. Ha!!! If you put those so called "gangsters" in a real hood like Bedford-Stuyvesant and not in a beach community in the suburbs of long island, we all know they would cry their little way back home and realize maybe it would have been a smart idea to stay in school and contribute to society instead of constantly engrossing welfare.

I have a little message for the so called "graffitti artists" in Mastic. If you would have stayed in school you might know what the term Artist means. Unlike true graffitti artists your pretty pathetic and create nothing of the sort. I call it scribble and it defaces property. Grow up, be someone and do something with your life. Trust me, your really awful at what you do. Your handwriting is horrendous, your disgraceful and you should be proud of nothing. When you are caught they will crucify you and when they do, I promise to buy a cake to celebrate.

Mastication is the process by which food is crushed by teeth. To chew.

To chew, or to (literally) move the jaw up and down in a chewing motion.

It can easily be mistaken for masturbate. A very good word to play around with, it is; so much that I played around with a newspaper teacher's mind by using it in a piece of writing.

chewing. can also be a joke when u ask someone if they masticate

Verb - A quick cover up in case the word "masturbate" is spoken innappropriately or ill timed.

Main Entry: mas·ti·cate
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing
Etymology: Late Latin masticatus, past participle of masticare, from Greek mastichan to gnash the teeth; akin to Greek masasthai to chew -- more at MANDIBLE
Date: 1649
transitive senses
1 : to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth in preparation for swallowing : CHEW
2 : to soften or reduce to pulp by crushing or kneading
intransitive senses : CHEW
- mas·ti·ca·tion /"mas-t&-'kA-sh&n/ noun
- mas·ti·ca·tor /'mas-t&-"kA-t&r/ noun

from the latin verb "masticare"; To chew as in food.
This is also a pun on the word masturbate, which makes it a great conversation starter.