Jerking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JERKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• move or cause to move with a jerk
• raise (a weight) from shoulder level to above the head.
• cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it (originally in the sun).
• prepare (pork or chicken) by marinating it in spices and barbecuing it over a wood fire
NOUN:
• the act of jerking
• a quick, sharp, sudden movement
• a spasmodic muscular twitch.
• the raising of a barbell above the head from shoulder level by an abrupt straightening of the arms and legs, typically as the second part of a clean and jerk.
• a contemptibly foolish person.
• jerked meat
• The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk.
• an abrupt spasmodic movement
ADJECTIVE:
• jerky
• lacking a steady rhythm
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move with a sharp, sudden motion

Words related to JERKING

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Words that contain JERKING

jerkings20 jerkingly24

How to use JERKING in a sentence

• The wind swept around the corner, jerking her hat, and her hand flew up to it.
• How vigorously would he try to dislodge the reins by pulling and jerking! Dolly only clamped down her tail the harder.
• After cutting and slashing at them a while, we jumped back to our guns, and again went to jerking our elbows.
• For nearly an hour longer he stayed, not talking much, but smoking hard, and from time to time jerking out a disconnected remark.
• Jerking his nose up in token of pleasure, he would approach cautiously, for he knew that bees have stings.
• He took the thin arm surrendered to his gentleness, turned back her sleeve and felt the tense jerking pulse.
• She jerked desperately at the nail, and the jerking loosened her hold of both the shoes.
• It always gives me the jumps when you go on jerking it about like that.
• Then Weeks did move, throwing his net over it and jerking the draw string tight, at the same time pulling the captive toward him over the deck.
• The Texan, too, heard the sound and, jerking his horse to a standstill, sat listening.
• They had not gone twenty yards when a jerking nod awoke Mrs.
• But he had not lost his head and was jerking from side to side in an effort to pull free.
• The monster roared in sudden agony and pulled back, jerking his head up against a thick branch of the tree overhead.
• The horse leaped as if he had been burned, jerking ahead of his mate, and rearing in a madness of unaccustomed pain.
• The horse, feeling the dropped rein, stopped, jerking its neck forward in the luxury of rest, its companion coming to a standstill beside it.
• As he bounded in he beheld his suit-case, over at the window, jerking against the sash and sill as if possessed of evil spirits.
• It was standing still now, jerking its neck a little.
• Her cousin had a sore mouth from jerking on the lines, and he could not enjoy eating at all.
• In the thin haze his form was outlined there, his shock of light hair jerking this way and that, as he tore off one shingle after another, and threw them to the ground.
• I gripped the cloth, jerking it from the table, stumbling blindly toward the nearest glare of light.
• That jerking, suppressed smile upon his white and tortured countenance was terrible.
• He walked heavily, jerking his clumsy frame at every step.
• He swerved again lest Jose in jerking it up should catch his feet, and went on with an exultant toss of his white head.
• Forster started up, dropping his book upon the hearth, and jerking the table with his elbow, so as to dash out the larger proportion of the contents of his tumbler.
• Sometimes he slept so, his grey head jerking forward and backward in his weariness.
• If the scene changes too often and no movement is carried on without a break, the play may irritate us by its nervous jerking from place to place.

Similar words containing JERK without suffix ing

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