jerk

Related to jerk: contemptibly

jerk

n. a stupid or worthless person. (Now both males and females.) You are such a classic jerk!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • beat off
  • circle jerk
  • circle-jerk
  • jack around
  • jerk
  • jerk (one's) chain
  • jerk (someone or something) out of (something or some place)
  • jerk (someone or something) out of (something)
  • jerk around
  • jerk away
  • jerk off
  • jerk off (of something)
  • jerk out
  • jerk out of
  • jerk over
  • jerk someone around
  • jerk someone over
  • jerk up
  • jerks
  • jerkwater
  • jerkwater town
  • knee-jerk
  • knee-jerk reaction
  • put a jerk in it
  • soda jerk
  • the jerks
References in periodicals archive
The company says its ''gourmet'' boast comes from its desire to bring back ''real Jerk'' to the UK using a traditional Caribbean slow-smoke method offering a spicy-sweet flavour and a tender texture.
Police officers in Erdington posted the closure notice onto the yellow shutters of Jerk & Grill this morning.
The researchers suspected that hydromagnetic waves are responsible for the jerks. However, the interaction of these waves with the movement of slow convection, along with other resulting factors, had yet to be revealed.
The extensive menu also has a range of jerk pit barbecue items.
She also wrote that Jamie Oliver should get a "masterclass" in jerk by Levi Roots, the creator of Reggae reggae sauce.
Manila boy John Paolo Rivera, 17, captured three bronzes after lifting 96 kg in the snatch, 123 kg in the clean and jerk and 219 kg in the total lift.
To the pan, stir in the jerk sauce, crumbled stock cube, cream, milk and salt and bring to the boil.
creamy jerk mushrooms LEVI ROOTS enjoys serving up a taste of the tropics at his popular Caribbean Smokehouse Rasta-urant.
Pakistan's young weightlifter Nooh Dastagir Butt has added yet another feather to his name by winning a clean and jerk Gold medal during the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
KARACHI -- Pakistan's young weightlifter Nooh Dastagir Butt has added yet another feather to his name by winning a clean and jerk Gold medal during the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
I jerk the trigger, I look at the target, not the sight and my stance is well ...
Jerk chicken was served with a side dish of sweet, pickled cucumber and acidic mango vinaigrette dipping sauce.
Carlo Soriano spearheaded Zamboanga's medal assault in weightlifting with one gold in clean and jerk (121kg) and silver in snatch (95kg.) in men's senior division in the 57.5 kg.
There are increasing works on chaos in jerk oscillators [10-12].
Four-order models contain Jerk (Jerk denotes the rate of the acceleration change) model and its corresponding improved version.