jerkball

English

Etymology

Compound of jerk +‎ ball.

Noun

jerkball (plural jerkballs)

1. (informal, derogatory) An unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk

   • 2000, Joe Klein, The Running Mate, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 276:

     "Even half-speed, even mailing it in," Hilton said, "he works twice as hard as three-quarters of the jerkballs in this place."

   • 2018 November 29, Terence Moore, “With Apologies To ESPN, There Is That Other Bob Knight”, in Forbes‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

     "A lot of people think he's a jerkball," Darrell told me Thursday with emotion over the phone from his home in Washington D.C., where he is a territorial manager for a medical laboratory company.