French slang for masturbation.
1. (Vulgar)
Wank, ham
shank, hand shandy (act of masturbation).
2. (Vulgar) Crap, bullshit (worthless thing or activity)
3. (Vulgar) Crap, bullshit, wankery (dubious or too elaborated construct, in general intellectually).
Derives from "branler" (to wobble, te be unstanble, also in slang to
wank).
Se taper une branlette = to pull one's wire, to have a ham
shankLire des bouquins, c'est
le la branlette = Reading books is a fucking waste of time.
La droite, la gauche, le libéralisme, le communisme, c'est de la branlette tout ça ! = Right, left, free market economy,
communism, that's all bullshit.