jerkr.html - See: SODA JERK or SODA JERKER.

jerkr.html - {adv. phr.} With many stops and starts, a little now and a little more later; not all the time; irregularly. * /He had worked on the invention by fits and starts for several years./ * /You will never get anywhere if you study just by fits and starts./ Compare: FROM TIME TO TIME, OFF AND ON.

jerkr.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a sharp sudden pull, twist, twitch, start, etc.
2 a spasmodic muscular twitch.
3 (in pl.) Brit. colloq. exercises (physical jerks).
4 sl. a fool; a stupid person.

--v.

1 intr. move with a jerk.
2 tr. pull, thrust, twist, etc., with a jerk.
3 tr. throw with a suddenly arrested motion.
4 tr. Weight-lifting raise (a weight) from shoulder-level to above the head.

jerk off coarse sl. masturbate.

Usually considered a taboo use.

jerker n. [16th c.: perh. imit.]

jerkr.html - v.tr.
cure (beef) by cutting it in long slices and drying it in the sun. [Amer. Sp. charquear f. charqui f. Quechua echarqui dried flesh]

jerkr.html - n.
1 a sleeveless jacket.
2 hist. a man's close-fitting jacket, often of leather. [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

jerkr.html - adj.
(jerkier, jerkiest)
1 having sudden abrupt movements.
2 spasmodic.

jerkily adv. jerkiness n.