jerk

jerk is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
2. transitive verb. To beat; to strike.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
5. intransitive verb. To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
6. intransitive verb. To flout with contempt.
7. noun. A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
8. noun. A sudden start or spring.
9. noun. a sudden abrupt pull

   Synonyms: tug

10. noun. an abrupt spasmodic movement

    Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade

11. noun. raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms
12. noun. meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

    Synonyms: jerky

13. noun. a dull stupid fatuous person

    Synonyms: dork

14. noun. (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration
15. verb. make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion

    "his face is twitching"

    Synonyms: twitch

16. verb. throw or toss with a quick motion

    "flick a piece of paper across the table"

    "jerk his head"

    Synonyms: flick

17. verb. pull, or move with a sudden movement

    "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"

    Synonyms: yank

18. verb. jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched

    "the yung filly bucked"

    Synonyms: buck, hitch

19. verb. move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions

    "The patient's legs were jerkings"

    Synonyms: twitch

Synonyms

tug, jerking, jolt, saccade, jerky, dork, twitch, flick, yank, buck, hitch

Common word forms

jerks, jerked, jerker, jerking

Words from these letters

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