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Jerk   /dʒərk/   Listen
Jerk

noun
1.
A dull stupid fatuous person.  Synonym: dork.
2.
An abrupt spasmodic movement.  Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade.
3.
(mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration.
4.
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun.  Synonyms: jerked meat, jerky.
5.
Raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms.
6.
A sudden abrupt pull.  Synonym: tug.
verb
(past & past part. jerked; pres. part. jerking)
1.
Pull, or move with a sudden movement.  Synonym: yank.
2.
Move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions.  Synonym: twitch.
3.
Make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion.  Synonym: twitch.
4.
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.  Synonyms: buck, hitch.
5.
Throw or toss with a quick motion.  Synonym: flick.  "Jerk his head"



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"Jerk" Quotes from Famous Books



... One jerk of his strong arms pulled her toward him, and the next instant he had seized her, and by passing one arm around her neck clapped his hand over her mouth, thus ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter
... we try, Miss Stevens,' and before I could speak he turned his horses into the narrow part of the road! I looked down the side of the mountain, and it made me feel so sick and giddy that I put out my hands and caught the lines; this gave them a sudden jerk, the near horse started, and began to back—Abby screamed, and that frightened him more—I felt the wheel going over the edge—the bushes were close on the other side of the wagon—there was no place to jump—Ned dropped the lines and sprang out at the back—I remember seeing something break ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... pipe on the back of the hairy fist. 'They say 'Ell's 'otter than that,' said he, as Mulvaney swore aloud. 'You be warned so. Look yonder!'—he pointed across the river to a ruined temple—'Me an' you an' 'im'—he indicated me by a jerk of his head—'was there one day when Hi made a bloomin' show o' myself. You an' 'im stopped me doin' such—an' Hi was on'y wishful for to desert. You are makin' a bigger bloomin' ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling
... as they did plenty more in those times—cattle and what not. I'd forgive them the theft, if they hadn't spoilt the tune with a nasty jerk or two that murders the tender grace ...
— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... opened the door, forgetting to announce my approach as I ought to have done, I saw Wynnie leaning over Connie, and Connie's arm round her waist. Wynnie started back, and Connie gave a little cry, for the jerk thus occasioned had hurt her. Wynnie had turned her head away, but turned it again at Connie's cry, and I saw ...
— The Seaboard Parish Vol. 3 • George MacDonald


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