Crossword-Solution: JERK 4 letters, 163 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Jerk	v. t.	To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
Jerk	v. t.	To beat; to strike.
Jerk	v. t.	To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
Jerk	v. t.	To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
Jerk	v. i.	To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
Jerk	v. i.	To flout with contempt.
Jerk	n.	A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
Jerk	n.	A sudden start or spring.

We have 163 clues for the answer “JERK”

Clue	Answers
Abrupt move.	1 answer
Abrupt yank	1 answer
Annoying creep	1 answer
Any other driver who wrongs you (but never you), e.g.	1 answer
Caribbean cooking style	1 answer
Classic Steve Martin film, with "The"	1 answer
Clean companion	1 answer
Clean partner in weightlifting?	1 answer
Clean's partner in weightlifting	1 answer
Contemptible creep	1 answer
Dry in the sun, as strips of beef	1 answer
Forceful pull	1 answer
Fountain youth.	1 answer
Annoying person, informally	1 answer
Insufferable twit	1 answer
Jack-off	1 answer
Jamaican cooking style	1 answer
Jamaican dish	1 answer
Jamaican marinade	1 answer
Knee motion.	1 answer
MOVE involuntarily	1 answer
Make malteds, e.g.	1 answer
Move with a start.	1 answer
Not a pleasant person to be around	1 answer
Preserve (meat) in a certain way.	1 answer
Quick motion	1 answer
Real chump	1 answer
Sharp twitch.	1 answer
Short sudden movement	1 answer
Soda __: fountain worker	1 answer
Soda server	1 answer
Soda-fountain worker	1 answer
Steve Martin comedy, with "The"	1 answer
Steve Martin film, with "The"	1 answer
Steve Martin role: 1979	1 answer
Steve Martin title role, with "the"	1 answer
Steve Martin's "The ___"	1 answer
THROW with suddenly arrested motion	1 answer
Weight lifting maneuver	1 answer
Weightlifter's move	1 answer
__ chicken: Jamaican dish	1 answer
___ chicken (spicy Jamaican fare)	1 answer
flick a piece of paper across the table	1 answer
move or throw abruptly	1 answer
move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions	1 answer
sharp sudden pull	1 answer
throw or toss with a quick motion	1 answer
Fool – pull suddenly	1 answer
Sudden tug – piece of work	1 answer
Clunkhead	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTAEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with JERK (5)

Utterson’s nerves, at this unlooked-for termination, gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance; but he re-collected his courage and followed the butler into the laboratory building and through the surgical theatre, with its lumber of crates and bottles, to the foot of the stair.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

After the first jerk as I reached the end of the rope that had been paid out to let me fall below the pit’s edge they lowered me quickly but smoothly.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

She had just placed another representative of the renowned Jim Crow at the window, when again the shop-bell tinkled clamorously, and again the door being thrust open, with its characteristic jerk and jar, disclosed the same sturdy little urchin who, precisely two minutes ago, had made his exit.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

More and more weakly the torn and bleeding arm struck home with the long sharp blade, then the little figure stiffened with a spasmodic jerk, and Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, rolled unconscious upon the dead and decaying vegetation which carpeted his jungle home.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Then he ran out upon the platform just as the engine whistled twice in the final warning that precedes the first rumbling jerk of coupling pins.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with JERK (3)

I know. I know I’ve been a jerk, and I don’t have a good excuse. But touching you and loving you, and knowing you were planning to leave me, made me crazy. After we made love the second time, I began to think maybe you’d decide to stay with me. I started to think about you and me waking up every day together for the rest of our lives. I even thought about kids and taking some of those breathing classes when you got pregnant. Maybe buying one of those mini-vans.

Rachel Gibson Truly Madly Yours

I worked in a grocery store my whole life, Honey-girl. I know what lonely housewives think of this.”“I meant the baby, Jerk.”“Attached to me.”“You think you’re cute, don’t you?”“Are you honestly asking me this? I know you’re not debating it.

Pella Grace Knock Love Out

From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together.

Wes Moore Forcefully Advancing

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 134 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).