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jerk English

Meaning jerk meaning

What does jerk mean?
Definitions in simple English

jerk

A jerk is a quick action. The door opened with a jerk. A jerk is a bad or mean person. He's such a jerk for not holding the door open for his grandma.

jerk

If you jerk, you make a quick action. He jerked the door open.

jerk

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 a dull stupid fatuous person (= twitch) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion his face is twitching an abrupt spasmodic movement raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration (= flick) throw or toss with a quick motion flick a piece of paper across the table jerk his head (= buck) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched the yung filly bucked (= tug) a sudden abrupt pull (= jerky) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

Synonyms jerk synonyms

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Topics jerk topics

What do people use jerk to talk about?
  • What words refer to moving suddenly?
  • What words refer to moving something very quickly?
  • What words refer to pulling something quickly or suddenly?

Conjugation jerk conjugation

How do you conjugate jerk?

jerk · verb

Examples jerk examples

How do I use jerk in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What a jerk.
She dumped him because she thought he was a jerk.
Your ex-boyfriend is a jerk.
He's a jerk.
I thought you said Tom was a jerk.
He's a cold-hearted jerk.
I want to apologize to you for calling you a jerk in front of your girlfriend.
He's such a jerk.
Don't call me a jerk.
Tom was a jerk.
Tom was just falling asleep, when suddenly the train braked, and the jerk brought him back into the waking world.
Tom is such a jerk.
You may be rich, but that doesn't entitle you to act like a jerk.
Tom called me a stupid jerk.
The jerk factory called. They want their product back.
Tom didn't want Mary to think he was a jerk.
Tom's a jerk.
Tom can be such a jerk.
Tom is being a jerk.
I usually jerk off to porn rather than my own fantasies.
Stop being a jerk.

Movie subtitles

One jerk to start, and two to stop.
I'm a jerk.
I was a jerk.
Don't be a jerk!
Any of you can jerk a zipper?
I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk.
You look more like a soda jerk, or maybe a plasterer, maybe.
The rest of you, with the exception of this malignant jerk, are ignorant of the facts, and, therefore, confused.
You're a silly-looking little jerk with that towel around your head.
It was mine, jerk!
Soda jerk.
Whenever I wake up and realize I'm not an officer and a gentleman anymore. I'm just another soda jerk out of a job.
Every soda jerk in this country has got an idea he's somebody.
You have to jerk the bolt.
Grab the rope. One jerk to start, and two to stop.
I'm gonna jerk the war stuff on page two. Save me four columns.
The rest of you, with the exception of this malignant jerk, are ignorant of the facts and, therefore, confused.
O'Hara, don't be a jerk.
You disrespectful jerk!
Hold his head still. Otherwise he'll jerk.
Jerk!
Leave me alone. You jerk!
Then he turns around, offers me a job for 10. Dumb jerk.
The jerk works for me now.
You know the jerk, don't you? - Yes.
Why do you stay with that jerk?
Poor jerk.
That's where Frankie and his jerk-ass crew hang out.
Nick has been ignoring me ever since we, um, you know. So I was starting to think he was kind of a jerk.
But then he sent me this note asking me to meet him, so I started to think maybe he wasn't a jerk.
But then when we met, I started to think, maybe he was a jerk. Again.
You know, my dad is a real jerk, too.
Why did that jerk raise his gun?
That stupid jerk can't boss me around.
Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk.
He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk.
Another jerk.
I'm just another soda jerk out of a job.

News and current affairs

So the rich world will, in a knee-jerk response, erect ever-higher barriers to stem the human tide.
It is also emblematic of the knee-jerk reaction that often obfuscates the pros and cons of capital controls.
The dollar's strength reflects the knee-jerk reaction of investors rushing into US treasuries as a safe haven.
The knee-jerk rejection of nuclear power by some EU member countries has led to sharp increases in coal usage.
It will allay the growing tensions between Christianity and Islam fueled by international terrorism and knee-jerk nationalism.
The NTC has preserved much of the institutional paralysis and knee-jerk behavior typical of Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi's overthrown regime.
The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah's death, or simply as a result of a knee-jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006.
I do not apologize for rejecting knee-jerk calls for Russia's expulsion from the G-8, or for EU-Russia or NATO-Russia relations to be broken.
But knee-jerk reaction to stifle the exchange-rate appreciation that should follow from strong productivity growth only stokes more inflows.

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