outjerk

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ jerk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈdʒɜːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈdʒɜɹk/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

Verb

outjerk (third-person singular simple present outjerks, present participle outjerking, simple past and past participle outjerked)

1. (transitive, slang) To surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”).
   • 2005, Jean Brashear, Mercy, Don Mills, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 394:

     Then she raced across the stepping stones and slipped in front of him. “I get it. Paybacks, that it? I’ve been a jerk, so you’re going to outjerk me.”

   • 2007 July 9, Alan Hope, “Re: Dragged and Dropped -- Can Google Groups do that?”, in misc.writing‎^[1] (Usenet):

     As for the rest of your post, give it a fucking rest, okay? You're outjerking yourself. Which takes a bit of doing. Nobody's afraid of your innovative thinking, because it's made you the loser you are.

   • 2013, Kathy Altman, Staying at Joe's, Don Mills, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, pages 98–99:

     She bounced in her seat, maneuvering around to face him. “I take it back. I didn’t forget you’re a jerk because you’ve been one ever since I arrived. But you’ve now officially outjerked yourself.”

2. (transitive, Reddit slang) To participate in a circlejerk (an environment in an online community in which people express a narrow set of ideas, feelings, or jokes) in a more extreme way than (someone), often unintentionally.
   • 2015 January 18, u/Evulrabbitz, “Is taking a pocket avocado to a restaurant too /r/frugal?”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/SubredditDrama, archived from the original on 28 July 2024:

     Starcraft circlejerk sub still hasn't outjerked the original Starcraft Sub

   • 2020 September 29, u/freakedmind, “He's the inverted false 9 trequista regista reumdeuter center-back, what's so hard to understand? 🙄🙄”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/soccercirclejerk, archived from the original on 28 July 2024:

     Oh my god they're outjerking us. "constructs unsolvable problems" jfc lmao. These twats can't just say 'sits deep and creates space for the wingers' because it's been done a 100 times and it's nothing special.

   • 2022 June 10, u/MSFT400EOY, “Least stupid question asker”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/nbacirclejerk, archived from the original on 28 July 2024:

     It's just kinda obvious we've been getting outjerked by r/nba this post season. Time for some good ol'switcharoo and make this a basketball discussing sub

   • 2024 February 12, u/Femboy_Lord, “The most noncredible method for funding your Nuclear Weapons Program”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/NonCredibleDefense, archived from the original on 28 July 2024:

     Pack it up people, we were outjerked 30 years ago by a fucking cult.

Related terms

• rejerk
• unjerk