jerkball
jerkball noun: an unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk.
Noun
jerkball (plural jerkballs)
- 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
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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.
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