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 ...
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* "The Jerk", an episode of ''
House''
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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)
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 art of jerking (or cooking with jerk spice) originated with Amerindians in Jamaica from the Ar ...
, a style of cooking native to Jamaica
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Jerk (dance), a 1960s fad dance
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clean and jerk, an Olympic weightlifting lift
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Jerk (physics), an aspect of variable motion
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Jerkin'
Jerkin' or Jerk is a street dance originating from and popularized by the Inland Empire-based groups New Boyz and Audio Push, and has origins in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles. Since 2009, jerkin' gained fans along the West Coast, East ...
, 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 again ...
, Australian football coach
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Geomagnetic jerk
In geophysics, a geomagnetic jerk or secular geomagnetic variation impulse is a relatively sudden change in the derivative (mathematics), second derivative of the geomagnetic field, Earth's magnetic field with respect to time.
These events were no ...
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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)
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Jerkin (disambiguation)
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Circle jerk (disambiguation)
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