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outjerk

UK/aʊtˈdʒɜːk/US/aʊtˈdʒɜɹk/

outjerk verb: to surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”).

Verb

outjerk (third-person singular simple present outjerks, present participle outjerking, simple past and past participle outjerked)

  1. (slang, transitive) To surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”).
    • Then she raced across the stepping stones and slipped in front of him. “I get it. Paybacks, that it? I’ve been a jerk, so you’re going to outjerk me.”2005, Jean Brashear, Mercy, Don Mills, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 394
    • As for the rest of your post, give it a fucking rest, okay? You're outjerking yourself. Which takes a bit of doing. Nobody's afraid of your innovative thinking, because it's made you the loser you are.2007 July 9, Alan Hope, “Re: Dragged and Dropped -- Can Google Groups do that?”, in misc.writing (Usenet)
  2. (transitive, Reddit slang) To be more satirical than, often used when something (usually unintentionally) comes across as even more satirical than a parody of said thing.
    • Starcraft circlejerk sub still hasn't outjerked the original Starcraft Sub2015 January 18, u/Evulrabbitz, “Is taking a pocket avocado to a restaurant too /r/frugal?”, in Reddit, r/SubredditDrama, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024
    • Pack it up people, we were outjerked 30 years ago by a fucking cult.2024 February 12, u/Femboy_Lord, “The most noncredible method for funding your Nuclear Weapons Program”, in Reddit, r/NonCredibleDefense, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024

Forms of outjerk

third-person singular presentoutjerks
present participleoutjerking
past participleoutjerked
pastoutjerked

Origin of outjerk

From out- + jerk. The latter definition is derived from circlejerk (“a community, usually online, that acts as an echo chamber for a specific topic of conversation, often deliberately in a satirical, self-aware fashion”).

Words that rhyme with outjerk

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Questions about outjerk

What does outjerk mean?
Outjerk means to surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”).
What part of speech is outjerk?
Outjerk is a verb.
How do you pronounce outjerk?
Outjerk is pronounced /aʊtˈdʒɜːk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of outjerk?
The past tense of outjerk is outjerked.

Words near outjerk in the dictionary

  1. outjazzing
  2. outjeer
  3. outjeered
  4. outjeering
  5. outjeers
  6. outjerk
  7. outjerked
  8. outjerking
  9. outjerks
  10. outjest
  11. outjested

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