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Jerk may refer to one of the following:
- Jamaican jerk spice, a style of cooking native to Jamaica in which meats are dry-rubbed with a fiery spice mixture
- The second phase of the "clean and jerk", a weightlifting exercise
- Hypnic jerk, an involuntary muscle twitch during the transition from wakefulness to sleep
- Soda jerk, a person who operates a soda fountain
- Jerk (physics), 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 by hHead
- Jerk (band), an industrial metal band from Sydney, Australia
- The Jerk (dance), a 1960s dance craze based on the Don Julian song
- "The Jerk", a 1964 song, on an album of the same name, by Don Julian & The Larks
- Jerkin', a 2000s dance