Jerk

Noun

 * 1) A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
 * 2) * 1856:, , 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.
 * 1) A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
 * When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A dull or stupid person. (This meaning is given in the American Heritage Dictionary of 1969 whereas the following meaning is not.)
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, 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.
 * 1)  The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
 * 2)  A soda jerk.

Synonyms

 * jolt, lurch, jump
 * yank
 * numbskull
 * asshole, bastard, twat, knobhead, tosser, wanker, git, dick.
 * jolt, surge, lurch

Derived terms

 * jerkish
 * soda jerk

Verb

 * 1)  To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
 * 2)  To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 To masturbate.
 * 4)  To beat, to hit.
 * 5)  To throw.

Noun

 * 1)  A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
 * 2)  Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
 * Jerk chicken is a local favorite.

Verb

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

Adverbs for Jerk
spitefully; instinctively; desperately; ludicrously; furiously; intermittently; ignominiously; frantically; mechanically; repetitiously; violently.

Thesaurus
SOB, anhydrate, ass, asshole, backslide, bastard, blast-freeze, bob, bobble, boob, booby, bounce, bowl, brine, bugger, bump, cast, catapult, chuck, chump, chunk, cock, corn, creep, cure, dart, dash, dehydrate, desiccate, didder, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dither, dope, drag, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, embalm, evaporate, fall astern, fall behind, falter, fart, fidget, fire, flick, fling, flip, flip out, flirt, flounce, flutter, fool, fork, freak out on, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, galoot, get behind, get high on, glow, go backwards, go behind, go pitapat, goof, grimace, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, heel, hitch, hood, hooligan, hurl, hurtle, idiot, imbecile, irradiate, itch, jackass, jar, jerk back, jerk-off, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jump, kipper, klutz, lance, lapse, launch, let fly, lob, lose ground, louse, lug, lurch, marinade, marinate, meanie, moron, mother, mummify, mutt, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nip, palpitate, pant, pass, peg, pelt, pickle, pill, pitch, pitchfork, pluck, preservatize, prize sap, pull, pull back, put, put the shot, quake, quaver, quick-freeze, quiver, rat, recede, recidivate, refrigerate, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, rictus, salt, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, schmuck, season, serve, shake, shit, shithead, shitheel, shiver, shock, shudder, shy, sling, slip back, smoke, smoke-cure, snake, snap, snatch, squirm, start, stinkard, stinker, stuff, sudden pull, swell, swell with emotion, thrill, thrill to, throb, throw, tic, tilt, tingle, tingle with excitement, tomfool, toss, toss and turn, tremble, tremor, tug, tumble, turd, turn on to, tweak, twist, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, vellicate, wiggle, wobble, wrench, wrest, wriggle, wring, writhe, yank, yerk

Etymology 1
Possibly from yerk:

Etymology 2
From American charquear:, from charqui:, from  echarqui:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (Ra'asha)
 * Chinese:
 * Finnish: nytkähdys
 * French: tic, myoclonie, clonie, convulsion, spasme, tressaillement, sursaut, soubresaut
 * French: tic, myoclonie, clonie, convulsion, spasme, tressaillement, sursaut, soubresaut


 * German: Zuckung
 * Interlingua: spasmo
 * Italian:, ,  ,
 * Spanish:, , estremecimiento, repullo


 * Arabic: (hazza)
 * Chinese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: secousse, saccade, cahot
 * French: secousse, saccade, cahot


 * German:
 * Interlingua: succussa
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:, tirón, tumbo


 * Arabic: or
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 蠢人,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,  , crétin, mauvais con
 * German: Arsch, Arschloch


 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: vexator
 * Italian:, ,  ,  ,  , stronzo
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, , , huevón


 * Chinese:
 * Czech: ryv
 * Czech: ryv


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * : కుదుపు (kudupu)

Verb

 * Arabic: يرتعش
 * Finnish: ,


 * German:


 * Arabic: يهز
 * Finnish: nytkäyttää, ,


 * German: rucken


 * : కుదుపు (kudupu)

Derived terms

 * jerk off
 * jerksome

Related terms

 * jerky (noun)

Noun

 * 1) jerk dance

Etymology
From

Verb

 * 1) to expect