Jerk (disambiguation)
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Jerk may refer to one of the following:
- Clean and jerk, the second stage of the Olympic weightlifting exercise
- Hypnic jerk, an involuntary muscle twitch during the transition from wakefulness to sleep
- Jamaican jerk spice, a style of cooking native to Jamaica in which meats are dry-rubbed with a fiery spice mixture
- Soda jerk, a person who operates a soda fountain
- Jerk, in physics, the rate of change of acceleration.
- The Jerk (1979), a comedy film starring Steve Martin
- The Jerk (House episode), a third season episode of the TV series House
- Jerk, an album released in 1995 by hHead on IRS records
- Jerk (band), an industrial metal band from Sydney, Australia
- The Jerk (dance), a dance craze