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Answer for the clue "Masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) ", 8 letters:
frottage

Word definitions for frottage in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In art , frottage (from French frotter , "to rub") is a surrealist and "automatic" method of creative production developed by Max Ernst .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1933 as the name of a sexual perversion, from French frottage "rubbing, friction," from frotter "to rub," from Old French froter "to rub, wipe; beat, thrash" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *frictare , frequentative of Latin fricare "to rub" (see friction ). ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable arts English) A method of making an image by placing a piece of paper against an object and then rubbing over it, usually with a pencil or charcoal. 2 (context countable arts English) An image so made. 3 (context uncountable sexology ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd)

Usage examples of frottage.

When in Alobar's company, when meditating or bathing, she could exult in a body that remained firm and juicy while thousands about her withered away, but alone in the frottage of twilight, awaiting Alobar's return from the spice docks, fear would ooze out of the brown pit of her chin dimple, and, whimpering, she would turn from one deity to another, even bizarre Ganesh, with his elephant head, pleading for mercy for not having submitted to a widow's death in the rope yard.