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jerk up

jerk up verb: to spice (a food) with jerk (Jamaican spice blend).

Verb

jerk up (third-person singular simple present jerks up, present participle jerking up, simple past and past participle jerked up)

  1. (slang, transitive) To spice (a food) with jerk (Jamaican spice blend).
  2. (informal) To reprimand, mess with or complain to (someone).

jerk up meaning in Hindi

jerk up in Hindi

to jerk up, shrug
उचकाना uckānā

Forms of jerk up

third-person singular presentjerks up
present participlejerking up
past participlejerked up
pastjerked up

Questions about jerk up

What does jerk up mean?
Jerk up means to spice (a food) with jerk (Jamaican spice blend).
What is jerk up in Hindi?
Jerk up in Hindi is उचकाना (uckānā). See Jerk up meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jerk up?
Jerk up is a verb.
What is the past tense of jerk up?
The past tense of jerk up is jerked up.

Words near jerk up in the dictionary

  1. jerk one off
  2. jerk one out
  3. jerk over
  4. jerk someone's chain
  5. jerk the gherkin
  6. jerk up
  7. jerk water
  8. jerk-ass
  9. jerk-asses
  10. jerk-off
  11. jerk-offs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jerk up (page history and authors); उचकाना (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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