"jerk" Definition

Definitions for the word "jerk" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To beat; to strike.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To flout with contempt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A sudden start or spring.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 sharp sudden pull, twist, twitch, start, etc. 2 spasmodic muscular twitch. 3 (in pl.) Colloq. Exercises (physical jerks). 4 slang fool. v. Move, pull, thrust, twist, throw, etc., with a jerk. jerk off coarse slang masturbate. [imitative]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. v.
Cure (beef) by cutting it in long slices and drying it in the sun. [quechua echarqui dried fish in strips]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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