Jerk, The Jerk, Jerks, or Jerking may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film, stage, and television

* ''Jerk'' (play), a 2008 puppet play by Dennis Cooper * ''Jerk'' (TV series), a 2019 British sitcom * ''

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 ...

'', 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 F ...

'' * "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 ...

'' * "Jerk" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), an episode of ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''

Music

* Jerk (band), an Australian metal band * ''Jerk'' (album), by hHead, 1994 * "Jerk" (Kim Stockwood song), 1996 * "Jerk" (Oliver Tree song), 2020 * The Jerks, a Filipino rock band

Other uses

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 A ...

, a style of cooking native to Jamaica *

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 re ...

, an Olympic weightlifting lift *

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 *

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 Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), of ...

, a dance

Arts and entertainment

Film, stage, and television

Music

Other uses

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