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jerk
  1. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
  2. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  3. (pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
  4. (pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
  5. (physics) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
  6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
  7. (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.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “He indicated for us to follow him with a jerk of his head.”
      “With each jerk of the crowbar, the shed roof shook, moving up little by little until Leadfoot could get his hooves under it.”
      “The constant jerk of the train, as it drew up at wayside stations, roused him from his slumber.”
jerker
  1. A North American river chub, a hornyhead chub (Nocomis biguttatus).
  2. Someone or something that jerks.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The woman was wearing a men's jerker with a black vest and loose, tan trousers.”
      “He then spoke about how Hollywood has seemed to have abandoned the good old-fashioned tear jerker.”
      “They use a much better word for a tear jerker.”
jerk
  1. (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
  2. (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He indicated for us to follow him with a jerk of his head.”
      “With each jerk of the crowbar, the shed roof shook, moving up little by little until Leadfoot could get his hooves under it.”
      “The constant jerk of the train, as it drew up at wayside stations, roused him from his slumber.”
jerkface
  1. (pejorative) An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
jerkness
  1. The quality of being jerkish or obnoxious.
jerkess
  1. (rare) A female jerk (unlikeable person, or soda jerk).
jerkdar
  1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is a jerk.
jerking
jerkdom
  1. (colloquial) The state or essence of being a jerk.
  2. Synonyms:
jerkhood
  1. (slang) The state or essence of being a jerk.
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jerkishness
  1. The quality of being jerkish.
jerkitude
  1. (informal) The property of being a jerk.
jerkwad
  1. (derogatory) A jerk; an obnoxious person.
jerkfaces
  1. plural of jerkface
jerkings
jerkwads
  1. plural of jerkwad
jerkesses
  1. plural of jerkess
jerkers
  1. plural of jerker
jerks
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