Jerk

Quick meaning: Jerk is a noun meaning A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the human body.

Meaning

A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the human body.

More Meanings

1. A quick pull on something.
2. (US, slang, derogatory) A stupid person; an idiot or fool.
3. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
4. (originally Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, immoral, self-centered, or disagreeable.
5. (weightlifting) 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.
6. (preceded by definite article) 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.
7. (slang) Masturbation.

Example Sentences

You really are a jerk sometimes.

When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!

A barrel-organ in the street suddenly sprang with a jerk into a jovial tune.

Oh, Raymond―don't be such a jerk. Go and get yourself a drink or a tranquilizer or something.

Word Forms

• jerks
• jerking
• jerked

Synonyms for jerk

Depending on context, synonyms include assbreath, assbucket, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yank, flick, tug, jolt, flip, dork.

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