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jerkball

jerkball noun: an unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk.

Noun

jerkball (plural jerkballs)

  1. (derogatory, informal) An unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk.
    • "Even half-speed, even mailing it in," Hilton said, "he works twice as hard as three-quarters of the jerkballs in this place."2000, Joe Klein, The Running Mate, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 276
    • "A lot of people think he's a jerkball," Darrell told me Thursday with emotion over the phone from his home in Washington D.C., where he is a territorial manager for a medical laboratory company.2018 November 29, Terence Moore, “With Apologies To ESPN, There Is That Other Bob Knight”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022

Synonyms of jerkball

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Forms of jerkball

pluraljerkballs

Origin of jerkball

From jerk + -ball.

Questions about jerkball

What does jerkball mean?
Jerkball means an unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk.
What part of speech is jerkball?
Jerkball is a noun.
What is the plural of jerkball?
The plural of jerkball is jerkballs.

Words near jerkball in the dictionary

  1. jerk-waters
  2. jerkass
  3. jerkasses
  4. jerkbait
  5. jerkbaits
  6. jerkball
  7. jerkballs
  8. jerkdar
  9. jerkdom
  10. jerked
  11. jerked around

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