Usually means: Rapid, abrupt movement or pull.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. jerked: Merriam-Webster
  2. jerked: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jerked: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jerked, jerked: Wordnik
  5. jerked: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jerked: Wiktionary
  7. Jerked, jerked: Dictionary.com
  8. jerked: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Jerked: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Jerked: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. jerked: FreeDictionary.org
  12. jerked: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jerked: Encyclopedia

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  1. jerked: Medical dictionary

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  1. jerked: Idioms

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  1. jerked: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jerk)

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 asshole.
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) Masturbation.
noun:  (Internet slang) An act of satirizing behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
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:  (Internet slang) To satirize behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
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.
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