jerk
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
jerk (plural jerks)
- A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
- (US, slang, pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
- (North America, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, 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.
- (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
- (obsolete) A soda jerk.
- (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.
- (sudden movement) jolt, lurch, jump
- (quick tug) yank
- (stupid person) numbskull
- (unlikable person) asshole, bastard, twat, knobhead, tosser, wanker, git, dick; see Thesaurus:jerk.
- (physics, change in acceleration) jolt (British), surge, lurch
- French: tic, myoclonie, clonie, convulsion, spasme, tressaillement, sursaut, soubresaut
- German: Zuckung
- Italian: sobbalzo, scatto, spasmo, tic
- Portuguese: tique, cacoete, trejeito, espasmo
- Russian: вздра́гивание
- Spanish: tic, espasmo, estremecimiento, repullo
- French: secousse, saccade, cahot
- German: Ruck
- Italian: strattone, strappo
- Portuguese: puxada, sacudida
- Russian: рыво́к
- Spanish: sacudida, tirón, tumbo
- French: conard, connard, con, crétin
- German: Arsch, Arschloch, Schwein, Trottel, Hanswurst, Flasche, Wichser, Saftsack, Sackarsch
- Italian: idiota, scemo, stronzo, babbeo, chiavica, buco del culo
- Portuguese: estúpido, abécula
- Russian: подле́ц
- Spanish: cretino, imbécil, culeado (Latin America), tipejo, soplagaitas
- French: suraccélération
- German: Ruck
- Russian: рыво́к
jerk (jerks, present participle jerking; past and past participle jerked)
- (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 23
- York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 23
- (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
- (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
- to jerk a stone
- (usually, transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
- (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
- German: rucken
- Russian: дёргать
jerk (uncountable)
- (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
- (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
- Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
jerk (jerks, present participle jerking; past and past participle jerked)
- To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
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