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jerking

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States

A motion that jerks; a jerk.

noun

  1. 1

    A motion that jerks; a jerk.

    The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of jerkpresent participle and gerund of jerk

Forms

plural
jerkings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).