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nip | jerk |

As an initialism nip

is (us) national immunization program.

As a noun jerk is

a sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body or jerk can be (caribbean) a rich, spicy jamaican marinade.

As a verb jerk is

to make a sudden uncontrolled movement or jerk can be to cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

nip

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
    • I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
    He had a nip of whiskey.
    Synonyms
    * nibble (of food) * See also

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive of nipple .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably from a form of (etyl) nipen. Cognate with (etyl) ; (etyl) knebti.

    Verb

    (nipp)
  • To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  • *
  • To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  • * '>citation
  • To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  • To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
  • *

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A playful bite.
    • The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip .
  • A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  • Briskly cold weather.
    • There is a nip''' in the air. It is '''nippy outside.
  • * 1915 , :
    • The day had only just broken, and there was a nip in the air; but the sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining yellow.
  • A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
  • A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  • A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  • A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  • (nautical) A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.]
  • The place of intersection where one roll touches another in papermaking.
  • A pickpocket.
  • *
    • Derived terms
    * nip and tuck * nip in the bud

    Etymology 4

    Verb

    (nipp)
  • To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.
    • Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?

    Anagrams

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    jerk

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
  • * 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks , like a boat that pitches with every wave.
  • A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
    • When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk !
  • (US, slang, pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
  • (US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable.
    • I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
    You really are a jerk sometimes.
  • (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
  • (obsolete) A soda jerk.
  • (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
    • Usage notes
    (wikipedia jerk) * Jerk is measured in metres per second cubed (m/s3) in SI units, or in feet per second cubed (ft/s3) in imperial units.
    Synonyms
    * (sudden movement) jolt, lurch, jump * (quick tug) yank * (stupid person) numbskull * (unlikable person) asshole, bastard, twat, knobhead, tosser, wanker, git, dick. * jolt (British), surge, lurch
    Derived terms
    * jerkish * soda jerk

    See also

    * acceleration * displacement * velocity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
    • York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now.
  • To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  • (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
  • (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
    • (Florio)
  • (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
    • to jerk a stone
  • (usually, transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
  • (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
    • Derived terms
    * jerk off * jerksome

    Etymology 2

    From American (etyl) charquear, from charqui, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
  • (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
    • Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
    Related terms
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
  • * 2011 , Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores , page 106:
    • The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.