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 Martin and Gottlieb). This was Martin's first starring role in a feature film. The film also f ...
'', a 1979 American film
* "Jerk", an episode of ''
2 Stupid Dogs''
* "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 c ...
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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, a Filipino rock band
Other uses
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Jerk (physics)
Jerk (also known as jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over 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 standard gra ...
, an aspect of variable motion
* 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 rest ...
, an Olympic weightlifting lift
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Jerk (cooking)
Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet-marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.
The technique of ''jerking'' (or cooking with ''jerk spice'') originated from Jamaica's indigeno ...
, a style of cooking native to Jamaica
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Jerk (dance), a 1960s fad dance
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Jerkin', a dance
See also
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Tim Jerks, Australian football coach
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Geomagnetic jerk
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Hypnic jerk, 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 restaurant, preparing and serving carbonated drink, soda drinks and ice cream sodas. The drinks were made ...
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Jurk (disambiguation)
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Jerkin (disambiguation)
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Circle jerk (disambiguation)
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