Synonyms:
jerk, dork
Meaning: a dull stupid fatuous person
Synonyms:
jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade
Meaning: an abrupt spasmodic movement
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
yank, jerk
Meaning: pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"
Synonyms:
jerk, twitch
Meaning: move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions; "The patient's legs were jerkings"
Synonyms:
twitch, jerk
Meaning: make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion; "his face is twitching"
Usage examples
Jerk it out, Comrade Bristow.'
Then he sat up in bed with a jerk.
I felt myself slipping. Once my head dropped and came up with a jerk.
The snag caught on the low cow-catcher of the engine and gave the train a mighty jerk.
With a jerk of her body she comes nearer, and is now right in the whirlpool of bleak and perch.
His face was colorless. He moved the lever forward with a jerk, and lifting his eyes, saw her pass out of the gate.
Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee-pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air.
Then with a jerk the monoplane flattened out and came like a skimming bird to the surface of the water; her engines stopped.
Tom brought his own gaze down from the empty tree-top with a jerk. "Hoo!" he shouted, and leaned forward suddenly to flick his off horse with the whiplash.
The line is running out at full speed. He carefully checks it, making the resistance stronger and stronger, so as to prevent the fish from breaking the line with a sudden jerk.