Word Finder - jerk

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A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

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A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

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When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!

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A dull or stupid person.

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A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable.

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I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.

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The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

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A soda jerk.

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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.

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To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.

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To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

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To masturbate.

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To beat, to hit.

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To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.

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to jerk a stone

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(usually transitive) To lift using a jerk.

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To flout with contempt.

He was a jerk anyway.

Just being a jerk isn't against the law.

When I jerk it, then pull me out as quickly as you can.

She awoke with a jerk and looked around at the tiny cottage, lit only by a candle.

I hope the jerk isn't doing something stupid.

Why would they be responsible because Byrne acted like a jerk and decided to go for a midnight swim—drunk or sober?

His grip bit into her arm and the sudden jerk caused pain in her shoulder.

Putnam gave the rope a quick jerk and his friends pulled him out in great haste.

He grabbed her leg and with a quick jerk, dislodged her from the tree - right into his waiting arms.

The jerk couldn't even get it right—they'd only tied the game.

The jerk is obtainable only from muscle fibres possessed of neural tonus.

If the sensory nerves of the extensor muscle be severed, the "jerk" is lost.

I'm your campaign manager, and I'll be danged if I'm gonna get upstaged by that jerk Fitzgerald.

On getting the worm fairly out of the ground, it throws up its head with a jerk, and swallows it whole."

In these three genera the conidia are cast off with a jerk somewhat in the same way as the sporangium of Pilobolus.

For instance, if a rope is fixed at one end and held in the hand at the other end, a transverse jerk by the hand will travel as a transverse wave along the rope.

Stretching of the muscles antagonistic to the extensors - namely, of the flexor muscles - reduces the jerk by inhibiting the extensor spinal nerve cells through the nervous impulses generated by the tense flexor muscles.

The turning of attention towards the knee interferes with the jerk; hence the device of directing the person to perform vigorously some movement, which does not involve the muscles of the lower limb, at the moment when the light blow is dealt upon the tendon.

On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on with upraised arms.

I know you had a personal relationship with the jerk.

I don't think you were being mean when you got angry with your boyfriend for being a jerk.

A hand may suddenly fling out, a shoulder may shrug, a foot may kick, or the entire body may jerk.

Tuck into jerk chicken, spicy ribs, blackened fish or meat jambalaya and soak up the family vibe.

A sudden jerk will compress the nylon too far.

However, do not count on this to save you, as the bar will suddenly jerk to one side.

Clean the chicken and place in a bowl with the jerk seasoning as a marinade.

Some jerk their hands like robots, some seem to have facial tics, surprised by every sixth word.

After a while, however, he gave the rope a quick jerk.

Using a bad or cheaply made mount can jerk the movements enough where you lose sightings, which can get annoying.

Turn the Panic Mouse 360 on and computer-controlled movements jerk the arm around in random movements, just like a real mouse.

As he grows older, he could hurt you, or if someone new comes to the house and they jerk away, it could hurt them.

If you can, ask other merchants whether when you call with a problem, they get the dreaded, "Sorry, it must be your hardware" knee jerk response.

If your co-parent is truly a jerk and doesn't take you seriously, continuously violating agreements and missing appointments, you may want to get a third party involved.

While you may have liked your co-parent when you first decided to have a child, those feelings have drastically changed and now you are dealing with a jerk.

The worst thing you can do is tell your child that his other parent is a jerk.

Eventually, you will be co-parenting not with a jerk, but with someone you have a fairly neutral relationship with.

When was the last time you heard of someone writing an online dating profile reading "Seeking dishonest jerk to share uncomfortable silences, lack of trust, and shallow conversation"?

Tell him you think he's cute, and that you might have been kind of a jerk in the past, but would really like to get to know him better and hang out more.

It doesn't mean you should be a jerk if you see her-that would be immature and ruin any kind of future relationship (friends or whatever).

So here's my advice-it's fine to say hi, and start a conversation and test the waters, but if he still acts like he doesn't care, or ignores you most the time, then he's kind of a jerk and I wouldn't waste your time with him.

If he totally ignores you and acts like a jerk around you, then he's an idiot, and let it go.

The actor fully awakened only to jerk the car back onto the highway in an attempt to correct the vehicle.

Work slowly into coaxing him to go with you, taking care never to jerk or drag him along.

Don't jerk or over-tighten the handle when you're putting it back together or you can damage the faucet.

Smooth mechanism - Be sure the chair does not jump or jerk as it moves through the lifting and tilting functions and that it does not drop quickly when it returns to the original position.

The terms hypnic jerk or involuntary myoclonic twitch is used to refer to the muscle twitch that sometimes happens in a muscle or group of muscles before falling asleep.

You're driving your semi-street-legal racer through the city and some neon-lighting effects jerk cuts you off.

Throw the poke ball pressing up and B, then let go when the ball starts to jerk.

The arms or legs may flail or jerk uncontrollably.

Chorea-Involuntary movements in which the arms or legs may jerk or flail uncontrollably.