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jerking

verb

Meaning

  1. To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
  2. To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  3. To masturbate.
  4. To beat, to hit.
  5. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
  6. (usually transitive) To lift using a jerk.
  7. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
  8. A motion that jerks; a jerk.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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