Word: jerked
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...down in first-base position, they'd best reconcile themselves to being already out. For as soon as grownups catch on, it's time to change-and there goes the Philly Dog, right out in left field with the Slop, the Mashed Potato, the Batman and the Jerk...
...they do at countless collegiate parties everywhere, the couples wriggled to the watusi and gyrated to the jerk, while recorded drums and saxophones resounded in the dimly lit apartment of a University of California student in Berkeley. Unlike parties most anywhere, however, the boys and girls were naked. After a while some of the couples drifted into bedrooms. Some embraced in darkened corners...
...pronounced sow) also denotes what it sounds like: hog, jerk, liar or anything else derogatory-another bar girl contribution...
Friend of the Family, based on a Parisian stage smash entitled Patate, tells of a nonentity whose nickname means "potato nose," or, more loosely, jerk. Thanks to his longtime enemy, a prominent financier, he has borne that unfortunate nom de pomme since childhood. He avenges himself at last when he learns that the banker is having an affair with his teen-age daughter...
Congressmen offered the most pungent remarks. Sen. Dirksen said the demonstrations were "enough to make any person loyal to this country weep." Mississippi's Sen. Stennis urged the administration to "immediately move to jerk this movement up by the roots and grind it to bite." Sen. Kuchel said students who burned their draft cards were "sowing the seeds of treason...