jerk

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

1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.

Đồng nghĩa: jolt, lurch, shudder, shake, jump, working

A quick pull on something.

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

Đồng nghĩa: yank, tug

(US, derogatory, slang)(originally Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, immoral, self-centered, or disagreeable.

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.

Đồng nghĩa: asshole, arsehole

(US, derogatory, slang)A stupid person; an idiot or fool.

Đồng nghĩa: alcatote, asshat, arsehole, asshole, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, buffoon, brickhead, Charlie, chucklehead, chowderhead, chump, clart, clown, der-brain, dill pickle, dim bulb, dimwit, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumbass, dumbbell, dumbo, dumb fuck, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fathead, fenderhead, fiddle, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, Homer Simpson, ignoramus, imbecile, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, lamebrain, mameluke (US (Italian-American), slang), maroon, meathead, mong, moron, mug, muggins, mushhead, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numskull, numps, numpty, nupson, oaf, pillock, pinhead, plonker, prat, retard, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, schmo, schmuck, smooth brain, snapperhead, softhead, sot, stupid, sucker, thickhead, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, tubelight, twat, twerp, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzock, yampy, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, bonehead, Boeotian, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubblehead, bubble brain, bufflehead, buffoon, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dimbo, dim bulb, dimbus, dimwit, dingbat, ding dong, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumbbell, dumb cluck, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goon, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, halfwit, ha'porth, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jellybrain, jerk, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, muggins, mushhead, muttonhead, mutt, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, pillock, pigwidgeon, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, silly, simp, simpleton, smooth brain, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thickskull, thicko, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany, Vulgar:, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, buttbreath, dildo, dipshit, donkey dick, Alternative spelling of dumbass., dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbshit, farthead, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, jackass, peckerhead, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, twat

(weightlifting) 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.

(slang)Masturbation.

(preceded by definite article) 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.

(physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

Đồng nghĩa: jolt, surge, lurch

(US, abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, obsolete)Ellipsis of soda jerk.

(Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable)A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.

(Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable)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.

Jerk chicken is a local favorite.

(intransitive)To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.

(transitive)To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

(US, slang, vulgar)To masturbate.

Đồng nghĩa: beat it, wank, abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon, jack off, jack it, jerk, jerk it, jerk the gherkin, jerk off, jork it, knock one out, make the bald man cry, masturbate, mastuprate, play pocket pool, play with oneself, pleasure oneself, rub one out, self-abuse, self-pollute, service oneself, skeet, stroke, toss, toss off, touch oneself, wank, wank off, whack off, yank

(obsolete)To beat, to hit.

Đồng nghĩa: thump, strike, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, calcitrate, cuff, dab, dash, dowse, feeze, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, kick, knock, hammer, hit, impact, jerk, lambaste, lay into, lay on, lunge, patter, pat, pelt, pink, poke, pummel, punch, pound, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, rap, slam, slap, smack, smite, spank, strike, swap, swinge, vapulate, whack, whip, yerk

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

to jerk a stone

Đồng nghĩa: fling, shy, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

(transitive, usually)(usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.

(obsolete)To flout with contempt.

To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

Đồng nghĩa: jerky