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Meaning:
Noun:
- A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
- Caribbean A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
- Caribbean Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
- obsolete A soda jerk.
- engineering The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
- slang|pejorative A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable, and often not very intelligent.
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Verb:
- obsolete To throw.
- intransitive To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
- obsolete To beat, to hit.
- To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
- transitive To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- slang|vulgar To masturbate.
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