| ▸ noun: A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. ▸ noun: A quick tug or shake. ▸ noun: (originally Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable; an arsehole. ▸ noun: (US, slang, derogatory) A stupid person; an idiot or fool. ▸ noun: (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. ▸ noun: (slang) An act of male masturbation. ▸ noun: (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. ▸ noun: (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time. ▸ noun: (US, obsolete) A soda jerk. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. ▸ verb: (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. ▸ verb: (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate. ▸ verb: (obsolete) To beat, to hit. ▸ verb: (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand. ▸ verb: (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk. ▸ verb: (obsolete) To flout with contempt. ▸ noun: (Caribbean, Jamaica) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. ▸ noun: (Caribbean, Jamaica) 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. ▸ verb: To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.flick, jolt, twitch, yank, tug, dork, hitch, flip, buck, rate of acceleration, more... |
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