my most embarassing experience at a poker table

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last semester i was studying (if you can call it that) in london... i frequented the victoria casino about five times a week and was pretty chummy with most of the regulars there...

then one day they were discussing some random guy and one of the younger guys at the table said "ah, i hate that bloke, he's a wanker..." being the sophisticated american i am, i couldn't make sense of his slang, and i asked, innocently, hesitantly: what's a wanker?

a loooooong silence ensued... "uuuuh, mate.. it's someone who wanks"