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jerk

/jurk/US // dʒɜrk //UK // (dʒɜːk) //

混蛋,抽搐,抽搐的人,混混

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a quick, sharp pull, thrust, twist, throw, or the like; a sudden movement: The train started with a jerk.
    • : a spasmodic, usually involuntary, muscular movement, as the reflex action of pulling the hand away from a flame.
    • : any sudden, quick movement of the body, as in dodging something.
    • : Slang. a contemptibly naive, fatuous, foolish, or inconsequential person.
    • : the raising of a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms.
    • : jerks, British Informal. physical jerks.
    • : a dance, deriving from the twist, in which the dancers alternately thrust out their pelvises and their shoulders.
    • : the jerks, paroxysms or violent spasmodic muscular movements, as resulting from excitement evoked by some religious services.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to pull, twist, move, thrust, or throw with a quick, suddenly arrested motion: She jerked the child by the hand.
    • : to utter in a broken, spasmodic way.
    • : Informal. to prepare, dispense, and serve at a soda fountain.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give a jerk or jerks.
    • : to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
    • : to talk in a broken, spasmodic way.
    • : Informal. to work as a soda jerk.
    • : to dance the jerk.
  1. 1
    • : jerk off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Today, more than two decades after I arrived here in that rental van, this allegiance manifests as knee-jerk defensiveness when others take shots at California.

  • In a container, liquid can be levitated over a layer of gas by shaking the container up and down because the repeated, upward jerking motion keeps fluid from dripping into the air below.

  • That would be a heartbreaking experience for anyone to go through, and I’m so sorry that this jerk betrayed your trust like that.

  • Make the jerk bleed for your bike and they’re far less likely to bother at all.

  • Bill Gates was widely considered to come off like an evasive jerk in his testimony at the time … Which means he is now perfectly positioned to help Jeff Bezos learn from his mistakes in the Amazon titan’s first appearance before Congress.

  • You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.

  • Emetophobia tends to compromise my relationships, turning me into a selfish jerk.

  • What they found was that most people preferred to work with the lovable fool rather than the competent jerk.

  • “Either this or stay home and jerk off,” said one guy when I asked why he came tonight.

  • It is not a knee-jerk response to a sudden perceived threat.

  • A twist, a sudden jerk, and it was Black Hood who had the signal device now.

  • Here the little dogs sit and bark and jerk, ready to dodge into their hole in a moment.

  • It made the skin jerk and pull as if he were trying to get rid of an itch without using his hand.

  • He said nothing, however, but he went over and gave the bell cord a violent jerk.

  • When you tug a boat, you must not jerk at the rope but pull it gently, so I urged Kari to pull it smoothly.