Jerk, The Jerk, Jerks, or Jerking may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film, stage, and television
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''Jerk'' (play), a 2008 puppet play by Dennis Cooper
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''Jerk'' (TV series), a 2019 British sitcom
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The Jerk
''The Jerk'' is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, and Michael Elias (from a story by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb). This was Martin's first starring role in a feature film. The f ...
'', a 1979 American film
* "Jerk", an episode of ''
2 Stupid Dogs
''2 Stupid Dogs'' is an American animated television series created and designed by Donovan Cook and produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. It originally ran from September 5, 1993, to May 15, 1995, on TBS as a part of their ''Sunday Morning in Fr ...
''
* "The Jerk", an episode of ''
House
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air cond ...
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"Jerk" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), an episode of ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''
Music
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Jerk (band), an Australian metal band
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''Jerk'' (album), by hHead, 1994
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"Jerk" (Kim Stockwood song), 1996
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"Jerk" (Oliver Tree song), 2020
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The Jerks
The Jerks is a rock band from the Philippines formed in 1979, and perhaps, is the original alternative rock and blues band in the country. The band has undergone a lot of member changes and notably a lot of the previous members of the band are n ...
, a Filipino rock band
Other uses
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Jerk (cooking), a style of cooking native to Jamaica
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Jerk (dance)
The jerk was a popular or fad dance in the 1960s.
Description
The jerk is similar to the monkey. The arms move and hands move as if conducting. The wrists cross in front of the chest and then sweep out in time, or at half time, with the music. ...
, a 1960s fad dance
* half of the
clean and jerk
The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...
, an Olympic weightlifting lift
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Jerk (physics)
In physics, jerk or jolt is the rate at which an object's acceleration changes with respect to time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol and expressed in m/s3 (SI units) or ...
, an aspect of variable motion
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Jerkin', a dance
See also
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Tim Jerks
Tim Jerks is an Australian football coach.
Jerks was active as coaching development manager at the New South Wales Institute of Sport, before he was appointed in May 2003 as the coach of the Tuvalu national football team. The 3–2 win agains ...
, Australian football coach
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Geomagnetic jerk
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Hypnic jerk
A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person t ...
, a kind of muscle twitch
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Soda jerk
Soda jerk (or soda jerker) is an American term used to refer to a person — typically a young man — who would operate the soda fountain in a drugstore, preparing and serving soda drinks and ice cream sodas. The drinks were made by mixing fl ...
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Jurk (disambiguation)
Jurk may refer to:
People
* Thomas Jurk (born 1962), German politician
* Ulrike Jurk (born 1979), German volleyball player
Other uses
*'' De jurk'' or ''The Dress'', a 1996 Dutch comedy film
* Legal Aid for Women (Norwegian: ''Juridisk rådgivnin ...
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Jerkin (disambiguation)
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Circle jerk (disambiguation)
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