Associations to the word «Jerker»

Wiktionary

JERKER, noun. A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus).
JERKER, noun. Someone or something that jerks.

Dictionary definition

JERKER, noun. Someone who gives a strong sudden pull.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope