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Definition of Jerk

Jerk

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

To beat; to strike.

To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.

To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.

To flout with contempt.

A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.

A sudden start or spring.

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Jerk Quotations

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
Lee Iacocca

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
Leonardo DiCaprio

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
George Clooney

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
Herman Wouk

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
Christian Bale

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Reggie Jackson

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
Eddie Van Halen

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.
Devon Sawa

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
Don Van Vliet

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.
George Eads

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
Macaulay Culkin

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?
Ricki Lake

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Gary Ackerman

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.
Judith Guest

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
Rachel Perry

You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
Billy Koch

Hemingway was a jerk.
Harold Robbins

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Jerk Translations

jerk in Dutch is schokken
jerk in French is par secousse, soubresaut
jerk in German is Ruck, Ruck, ruckweise
jerk in Italian is stratto, folata
jerk in Norwegian is tosk, rykke, rykk

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