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View synonyms for jerk around

jerk around



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Idioms and Phrases

Take unfair advantage of, manipulate or deceive, as in Leave me alone; quit jerking me around! or He was jerking you around when he said he was home all evening . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]
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Example Sentences

He was also something of a jerk around women.

I jerk around to the fry cook, who struggles with his apron.

“You’re the jerk around here. You wouldn’t even talk to me yesterday and you expect me to just follow you around or something?”

This intensifies as the voice shifts around the room, compelling Winston and the black-suited interrogators to jerk around to face it.

I felt his weight jerk around my waist.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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