jerk

However bored the person helping you at the window may seem, or if they’re disinclined to return your cheery hello, that person in line before you may have been a jerk.

As the drugs begin to take effect, he seems to alternate between states of calm and moments of twitching and jerking.

Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.

When Megan Hastings was 10 years old she began having "jerking tics" but thought it was anxiety.

As for Arthur, the eye midge grants him a second life of sorts, popping itself into his dead skull and jerking him from prone into a seated position.