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Etymology 1[edit | edit source]
Possibly from Middle English yerk (“‘sudden motion’”)
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Jerk ({{{1}}})
- A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
- A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
- (US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable, and often not very intelligent.
- I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
- You really are a jerk sometimes.
- Template:Physics The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
Usage notes[edit | edit source]
- Jerk is measured in metres per second cubed (m/s3) in SI units , or in feet per second cubed (ft/s3) in imperial units.
Synonyms[edit | edit source]
- (sudden movement): jolt, lurch, jump
- (quick tug): yank
- (unlikable person): asshole, bastard.
- (physics, change in acceleration): jolt (British), surge, lurch
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to Jerk (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
- (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- Template:UK To masturbate.
- (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
- (obsolete) To throw.
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Etymology 2[edit | edit source]
From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Template:Qwe[[Category:Template:Qwe derivations|Jerk]] echarqui (“‘strips of dried flesh’”).
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- Template:Caribbean A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
- Template:Caribbean Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
- Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
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to Jerk (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
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Jerk m. (plural Jerks)
- jerk (dance)
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