jerk

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To cut (meat) into long strips and dry in the sun or cure by exposing to smoke.
• adjective Being or relating to a method of barbecuing meat that has been seasoned and wrapped in leaves of the allspice tree.
• intransitive verb To give a sudden quick thrust, push, pull, or twist to.
• intransitive verb To throw or toss with a quick abrupt motion.
• intransitive verb To utter abruptly or sharply.
• intransitive verb To make and serve (ice-cream sodas, for example) at a soda fountain.
• intransitive verb Sports To press (a weight) overhead from shoulder height in a quick motion.
• intransitive verb To move in sudden abrupt motions; jolt.
• intransitive verb To make spasmodic motions.
• noun A sudden abrupt motion, such as a yank or twist.
• noun A jolting or lurching motion.
• noun Physiology A sudden reflexive or spasmodic muscular movement.
• noun Involuntary convulsive twitching often resulting from excitement. Often used with the.
• noun Slang A foolish, rude, or contemptible person.
• noun Sports A lift in which the weight is heaved overhead from shoulder height with a quick motion.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To strike or beat, as with a whip or rod; strike smartly.
• To pull or thrust with sudden energy; act upon with a twitching or snatching motion; move with quick, sharp force: of ten with a word or words of direction: as, to jerk open a door; the horse jerked out his heels.
• To throw with a quick, sharp motion; specifically, to throw with the hand lower than the elbow, with an impulse given by sudden collision of the forearm with the hip: as, to jerk a stone.
• To make a sudden spasmodic motion; give a start; move twitchingly.
• To sneer; carp; speak sarcastically.
• In the English custom-house, to search, as a vessel, for unentered goods.
• To cure, as meat, especially beef, by cutting into long thin pieces and drying in the sun.
• noun In golf, a stroke in which the club-head, after striking the ball, digs into the ground.
• noun An abrupt witticism; a sudden sally of wit.
• noun plural Chorea or tic.
• noun Meat cut into strips and cured by drying it in the open air.
• noun A short, sharp pull, thrust, or twitch; a sudden throw or toss; a jolt; a twitching or spasmodic motion.
• noun A sudden spring or bound; a start; a leap; a sally.
• noun An involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle, due to reflex action resulting from a blow or other external stimulus.
• noun plural The paroxysms or violent spasmodic movements sometimes resulting from excitement in connection with religious services. Specifically called the jerks.
• noun A sneer; sarcasm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun. See charqui.
• intransitive verb To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
• intransitive verb To flout with contempt.
• transitive verb obsolete To beat; to strike.
• transitive verb To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk
• transitive verb To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
• noun A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
• noun A sudden start or spring.
• noun Slang A foolish, stupid, or otherwise contemptible person.
• noun (Sport) The lifting of a weight, in a single rapid motion, from shoulder height until the arms are outstretched above the head; distinguished from press in that the motion in a jerk is more rapid, and the body may be moved under the weight to assist completion of the movement.
• noun British Calisthenic exercises, such as push-ups or deep knee bends; also called physical jerks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Caribbean A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
• noun Caribbean Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
• verb To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
• noun A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
• noun A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
• noun US, slang, pejorative A dull or stupid person.