jerk
nounEtymology
Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare (“ready”).
Definitions
A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the human body.
- A barrel-organ in the street suddenly sprang with a jerk into a jovial tune.
A quick pull on something.
- When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, immoral,…
A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, immoral, self-centered, or disagreeable.
- I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
- You really are a jerk sometimes.
- Oh, Raymond―don't be such a jerk. Go and get yourself a drink or a tranquilizer or something.
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A stupid person
A stupid person; an idiot or fool.
A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a…
A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
Masturbation.
A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is…
A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is thrown forwards regularly to the beat of the music.
- Girls, hey, what's that you're doing Girl, girl, what's that you're doing You got to show me the steps to it Somehow, gonna learn how to do it Doing the jerk Hey, do the jerk Girl, come on and work Hey, do the jerk.
The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
Ellipsis of soda jerk.
To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
To masturbate.
To beat, to hit.
To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
- to jerk a stone
To lift using a jerk.
To flout with contempt.
A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
- Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art.
Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and…
Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
- Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
- Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison.
- This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.
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Derived
Achilles jerk, circle jerk, circle-jerk, circlejerk, clean and jerk, congressjerk, forearm jerk, hypnagogic jerk, hypnic jerk, jerkass, jerkdar, jerkdom, jerker, jerkery, jerkess, jerkface, jerkhead, jerkhole, jerkhood, jerkish, jerkism, jerkitude, jerkless, jerklike, jerkmeter, jerkness, jerko, jerk town, jerkwad, jerk-water, jerkweed, knee jerk, knee-jerk, megajerk, soda jerk, twerk, upjerk, jerksome, jerk around, jerk it · +6 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA