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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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