Definition of JERK

jerk

Plural: jerks

Noun

  • a dull stupid fatuous person
  • an abrupt spasmodic movement
  • (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration
  • meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
  • raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms
  • a sudden abrupt pull
  • A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the human body.
  • A quick pull on something.
  • A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
  • A stupid person; an idiot or fool.
  • 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.
  • Masturbation.
  • Masturbation.
  • An act of satirizing behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
  • A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is thrown forwards regularly to the beat of the music.
  • The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
  • A soda jerk.
  • A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
  • Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.

Verb

Verb Forms: jerked, jerking, jerks

  • To move or pull with a sudden, sharp motion.
  • pull, or move with a sudden movement
    • "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"
  • move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions
    • "The patient's legs were jerkings"
  • make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion
  • jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
  • throw or toss with a quick motion
    • "jerk his head"
  • To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
  • To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  • To masturbate.
  • To masturbate.
  • To satirize behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
  • To beat, to hit.
  • To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
  • To lift using a jerk.
  • To flout with contempt.
  • To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

Examples

  • He tried to JERK the game back in his favor with a desperate bingo play.
  • I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
  • Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
  • Jerk of the Year contender
  • This is jerking’s 9/11
  • to jerk a stone
  • When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
  • You really are a jerk sometimes.

Origin / Etymology

Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare (“ready”).

Synonyms

buck, dork, flick, hitch, jerked meat, jerking, jerky, jolt, saccade, tug, twitch, yank, Alternative spelling of dumbass., Boeotian, Charlie, Homer Simpson, Vulgar:, addle pate, addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, alcatote, arsehole, ass, assbag, assbreath, assbucket, assclown, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker, asshat, asshead, asshole, assmonkey, assmouth, assmunch, assmuncher, asstard, assweed, asswipe, baboon, bag of dicks, ball sack, bang, bash one out, bastard, baste, bate, batter, bayard, beanbrain, beat, beat it, beat off, beetlebrain, beetlehead, belabor, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blackguard, blither, blockhead, blow, blubberbrain, bobchin, bonehead, boob, boom-boom, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubble brain, bubblehead, buffet, bufflehead, buffoon, bung, butt, buttbreath, buttface, butthead, buttmunch, buttmuncher, calcitrate, cast, choad, chowderhead, chuck, chucklehead, chump, chunk, chunk-blower, cittern-head, clart, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, cock gobbler, cock-knocker, cockbag, cockbreath, cockface, cockfag, cockfuck, cockfucker, cockhead, cockmunch, cockmuncher, cocksack, cockshit, cocksuck, cocksucker, cockwad, cockwaffle, cockweasel, cockwipe, cook, crackhead, crank one out, cretin, cuckoo, cullion, cum guzzler, cumbucket, cumrag, cumstain, cunt, cunt muncher, cuntard, cuntass, cuntbag, cuntbiscuit, cuntbitch, cuntbreath, cuntbucket, cuntface, cuntfuck, cuntfucker, cunthead, cuntlapper, cuntlicker, cuntmuffin, cuntrag, cuntshit, cuntstain, cuntsucker, cuntwad, cuntwaffle, cuntweasel, cuntweed, cuntwhacker, cuntwipe, dab, dash, deadhead, der-brain, dick, dick munch, dick muncher, dickass, dickbag, dickbiscuit, dickbreath, dickbucket, dickface, dickfuck, dickfucker, dickhead, dicklicker, dicknose, dicknut, dicksack, dickshit, dickstain, dickster, dicksucker, dicktard, dickwad, dickweasel, dickweed, dildo, dill pickle, dillweed, dim bulb, dimbo, dimbus, dimwit, ding dong, dingbat, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbag, dirtbrain, dirthead, dirtwad, div, divvo, divvy, doldrum, dolt, donk, donkey dick, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dote, dotterel, douche, douche boat, douche nozzle, douchebag, doucheburger, douchecanoe, douchelord, douchewad, douchewagon, dowse, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dumbshit, dummkopf, dummy, dump, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, dupe, eejit, fag, faggot, faggotface, fap, farthead, fathead, featherbrain, feck, fenderhead, fetch one a blow, fiddle, flap, fleabrain, fling, fool, fopdoodle, frig, fuck, fuck-knuckle, fuckbag, fuckball, fuckbucket, fuckchop, fucker, fuckface, fuckhead, fuckmitten, fuckmuffin, fucknose, fucknozzle, fuckoid, fuckrod, fuckshit, fuckskull, fuckstain, fuckster, fuckstick, fucktard, fucktrumpet, fuckwaffle, fuckweasel, fuckweed, fuckwit, fuzznut, galoot, geck, gig, gimboid, gink, git, give toco, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goose, gooseberry, goosecap, gorbuson, gowk, gubbins, gudgeon, gump, ha'p'orth, ha'porth, halfwit, hammer, hammerhead, heave, hield, hit, hosebag, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, impact, inbred, jack it, jack off, jackaninny, jackass, jackoff, jagoff, jagweed, jamoke, jellybrain, jerk, jerk it, jerk off, jerkball, jerko, jerkoff, jerkwad, jerkweed, jitbag, jizzbag, jolt#Noun, jolterhead, jolthead, jork it, juggins, jughead, jump#Noun, kick, knob polisher, knob-gobbler, knock, knock one out, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, launch, lob, log, loggerhead, lowlife, lummox, lunge, lunk, lunkhead, lurch#Noun, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, mastuprate, masturbate, meanie, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mong, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, mug, muggins, mushhead, mutt, muttonhead, nark, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numbskull, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, paddock, pat, patter, peabrain, peagoose, peck, peckerhead, peg, pelt, penishead, pick, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of junk, piece of shit, piece of trash, piece of work, pig, pigwidgeon, pile of crap, pile of shit, pillock, pinhead, pink, pissface, pisspot, pitch, plank, play pocket pool, play with oneself, pleasure oneself, plonker, poke, pound, prat, precipitate, prick, prickface, prickhead, prickwad, project, pukeball, pukestain, pummel, punch, pussybreath, put, putz, quoit, rap, retard, rub one out, sack of shit, sap, saphead, schmo, schmuck, scoundrel, scum, scumbag, scumbreath, scumbug, scumbutt, scumface, scumfuck, scumhead, scumhole, scumlord, scuzz, scuzzball, scuzzbucket, scuzzoid, self-abuse, self-pollute, service oneself, shake#Noun, shit bird, shit for brains, shitass, shitbag, shitball, shitbrain, shitbreath, shitbucket, shitcock, shitcunt, shitdick, shiteater, shitface, shitfuck, shitfucker, shitgibbon, shitgoblin, shitguzzler, shithead, shitheap, shitheel, shithook, shitlicker, shitlord, shitmuncher, shitneck, shitnugget, shitnuts, shitpot, shitrag, shitsack, shitstain, shitwad, shitwit, shudder#Noun, shy, silly, simp, simpleton, skeet, skew, slam, slang), slap, sleaze, sleazebag, sleazeball, sleazebucket, sleazehole, sleazewad, slight, slimebucket, slimeface, slimehole, slimewad, sling, smite, snapperhead, snotbag, snotball, snotface, snothead, snotwad, softhead, sot, sourhead, space cadet, spanner, squib, strike, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, sucker, surge#Noun, swap, tap, tard, thickhead, thicko, thickskull, thrash, thrill, throw, thump, thwack, tomfool, tonto, tool, toolbox, toss, toss off, tosser, tosspot, touch oneself, traject, tug#Noun, turkey, twat, twerp, twit, undesirable, vapulate, vonce, wally, wank, wank off, wanker, wantwit, warp, wazzer, wazzock, weasel, wet wipe, whack, whack off, whang, whip, whop, wing, witless wonder, yampy, yank#Noun, yerk, yo-yo, 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Scrabble Score: 15

jerk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
jerk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jerk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

jerk: valid Words With Friends Word