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jerk
noun as in a lurching move
noun as in contemptibly foolish person
verb as in move with lurch
Example Sentences
That could have contributed to investors’ fearful reaction on Thursday as stocks jerked lower, said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.
That could have contributed to investors’ fearful reaction on Thursday as stocks jerked lower, said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.
However bored the person helping you at the window may seem, or if they’re disinclined to return your cheery hello, that person in line before you may have been a jerk.
As the drugs begin to take effect, he seems to alternate between states of calm and moments of twitching and jerking.
Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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