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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



... that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference. Even then he scarcely understood what this indicated, until he heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so. Then the thing came upon him in a flash. The cylinder was artificial—hollow—with an end that screwed out! Something within the cylinder was ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
... to darken. The sun slid down to the horizon, and seemed, as it were, to disappear from my sight, almost with a jerk. Through the greyness of the swift evening, I saw the silver crescent of the moon, falling out of the Southern sky, toward the West. The evening seemed to merge into an almost instant night. Above me, the many ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... further than was ever recorded. And whereas it is, and always has been, a fact well known to the owners of these barometers that if they are tapped violently in the centre of their mahogany stomachs the needle will jerk a little in the direction of recovery, and is thereby believed to exercise a controlling influence in the direction of better weather, the more the barometers were tapped and thumped the more the needle edged backwards, till in some cases it went down till it pointed to the ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish
... further silence that engulfed them like fog. A shift of wind blew a gust of dry snow against the window-pane with a little sleety noise. And as another evidence of rising wind, a jerk of it came down the flue, rattling the fender of ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... made up his mind that he stood very little chance of seeing Abbie or his daughters again, when he felt the onward rush suddenly modified. There were a pawing and snorting, an irregular jerk or two, and then a dead stop. The old gentleman picked himself up and descended to the ground uninjured ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne


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