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/dʒˈərkɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Jerking n. The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk.

verb

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

Jerk v. t. (past & past part. jerked; pres. part. jerking)

To beat; to strike. (Obs.)

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.

Jerk v. i.

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

To flout with contempt.

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Etymology of 'Jerking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jerking" Quotes from Famous Books

... immediately to join her at her home. Shelby had assented to this plan, and directly set about escorting her to her destination. No dread of Ludlow prompted this vigilance. He discerned that that glamour had forever waned. The woman's jerking nerves made him fear a collapse. Stripped of shams for once, ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... cherry-tree," said Myles, jerking his head in that direction. "An I may go get it, I will trouble ye no more." As he spoke he made ...

— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle

... running race when the horses have got half a mile away and look like a covey of swift birds, but it is still a fine sight. I became very fastidious as to which moment of it was the finest, whether when the horse rose in profile, or when his aerial hoof touched the ground (with the effect of half jerking his rider's head half off), or when he showed a flying heel in perspective; and I do not know to this hour which I prefer. But I suppose I was becoming gradually spoiled by my pleasure, for as time went on I noticed that I was not satisfied ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... it all right," he said jerking a wan smile, but he looked as though the last of his own nerve had gone into the telephone receiver. "She wanted to put in an extra check, but I told her we'd be generous and let it go at what she could find without her name on it. Gosh, what fools some wommen are! I thought ...

— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill

... got a fishhook in my leg today. me and Fatty Melcher was a fishing when we got our lines tangled, i hollered first cut, but i dident have enny nife and Fatty woodent let me have his nife. So we got jerking our lines kinder mad like and all of a suddin the hook got into my leg. gosh you bet it hurt. me and Fatty got the hook out but it bled some. the worst of it was there was a wirm on the hook and when we ...

— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute

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