Definitions for jerk

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jerk jerk

Spelling: [jurk]

IPA: /dʒɜrk/

Jerk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in jerk (ejkr).

Definitions for jerk

noun

1. a quick, sharp pull, thrust, twist, throw, or the like; a sudden movement:
2. a spasmodic, usually involuntary, muscular movement, as the reflex action of pulling the hand away from a flame.
3. any sudden, quick movement of the body, as in dodging something.
4. Slang. a contemptibly naive, fatuous, foolish, or inconsequential person.
5. (in weightlifting) the raising of a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms.
6. jerks, British Informal. physical jerks.
7. a dance, deriving from the twist, in which the dancers alternately thrust out their pelvises and their shoulders.
8. the jerks, paroxysms or violent spasmodic muscular movements, as resulting from excitement evoked by some religious services.
9. jerky2 .

adjective

1. being or containing a spicy seasoning mixture flavored with allspice, used especially in Jamaican cooking:
2. prepared with jerk flavorings, especially by barbecuing or grilling:

plural noun

1. physical conditioning exercises, as push-ups and knee bends.

Verb phrases

1. jerk off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.

verb (used with object)

1. to pull, twist, move, thrust, or throw with a quick, suddenly arrested motion:
2. to utter in a broken, spasmodic way.
3. Informal. to prepare, dispense, and serve (sodas, ice cream, etc.) at a soda fountain.
4. to preserve (meat, especially beef) by cutting in strips and curing by drying in the sun.

verb (used without object)

1. to give a jerk or jerks.
2. to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
3. to talk in a broken, spasmodic way.
4. Informal. to work as a soda jerk.
5. to dance the jerk.

Origin of jerk

1540-50; 1935-40 for def 4; perhaps dialectal variant of yerk to draw stitches tight (shoemaker's term), thus making the shoe ready to wear, Old English gearcian to prepare, make ready

Examples for jerk

So, you know, I think Suey Park falls pretty far on the “jerk” end of the scale.

Suddenly she sat up with a jerk, and dashed her hand across her eyes.

You cannot perform or externalize your vanity as overtly as Bieber did without again emphasizing to the world you are a jerk.

Being captain of the forecastle, I knew where to find it, and throw it loose at a jerk.

If he had a bad experience working with me, I was probably a jerk.

Even as he held it up for all of them to see, his limbs began to jerk and stiffen.

As he spoke there was a sudden soft jar and jerk, then the schooner was still.

“Either this or stay home and jerk off,” said one guy when I asked why he came tonight.

Suddenly the door is pulled open with a jerk and our enemy leaps in.

You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.