jerk vs trephine

jerk

verb
  • To masturbate. 

  • To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun. 

  • To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. 

  • To lift using a jerk. 

  • To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. 

noun
  • A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. 

  • The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time. 

  • A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time. 

  • A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable. 

  • Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui. 

  • A dull or stupid person. 

  • A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. 

  • A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. 

trephine

verb
  • To perforate with a trephine. 

  • To use a trephine during surgery. 

noun
  • A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, f.e. bone or cornea; a trepan. 

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