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jerker

  • a word derived from jerk.

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Icez, rapper and producer: Everybody wanted to be the best jerker, best producer, best rapper, best dancer of the movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The Fault in Our Stars is an adaptation of John Green’s best-selling young adult tear jerker novel of the same name.

From Time • Jun. 3, 2014

But the picture is mostly an unblushing jerker of glycerin tears.

From Time Magazine Archive

Draft Boss Major General Lewis Hershey admitted that a 26-year-old soda jerker could be given a deferment if he was the only one in the community.

From Time Magazine Archive

Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream.

From Time Magazine Archive