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Jerk   /dʒərk/   Listen
noun
Jerk  n.  
1.
A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion. "His jade gave him a jerk."
2.
A sudden start or spring. "Lobsters... swim backwards by jerks or springs."
3.
A foolish, stupid, or otherwise contemptible person. (Slang)
Synonyms: jerkoff.
4.
(Sport) The lifting of a weight, in a single rapid motion, from shoulder height until the arms are outstretched above the head; distinguished from press in that the motion in a jerk is more rapid, and the body may be moved under the weight to assist completion of the movement; as, a clean and jerk of two hundred pounds.
5.
Calisthenic exercises, such as push-ups or deep knee bends; also called physical jerks. (British)


verb
Jerk  v. t.  To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, to jerk beef. See Charqui.


Jerk  v. t.  (past & past part. jerked; pres. part. jerking)  
1.
To beat; to strike. (Obs.)
2.
To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
3.
To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.


Jerk  v. i.  
1.
To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
2.
To flout with contempt.





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"Jerk" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a sudden jerk sat bolt upright, as straight as a crock. "Who asked you for your advice?" ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... whip was brought up to the pirate and slipped over his neck; Cavendish then gave the signal, the gun was fired, the men holding the end of the whip ran aft, the seamen holding the man sprang aside, and the pirate's body, still struggling and writhing, went flying aloft, to stop presently with a jerk as it reached the jewel-block, and dangle at the end of the fore yard-arm, still plunging and struggling with such violence that the yard itself fairly shook. It was some considerable time before the struggles ceased. The body was allowed to hang a little longer, ...
— Across the Spanish Main - A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... once the car moved on with a jerk, the girl sinking back into her corner with a suggestion of breathlessness, as though her effort to seem composed had been almost too ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... turquoises, and with a jerk of her left hand, she freed it and threw them after the rest. The necklace caught the handrail as it fell, and Markin made a vain spring to save it. He turned and stared at Laura, who stood fighting the greatest puissance of feeling ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)
... quick-glancing eyes, and vehement gestures. The chief characteristic of the man seemed intensity. It manifested itself in his eager movements, in his emphasis and tones of voice, in his swiftly changing expression, in his wild hair, in his neckerchief, which seemed to have been tied with a jerk, and in his dress throughout, which was evidently that of a man who had things of vaster importance to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various


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