Synonyms of jerk around

jerk around

verb

as in to play (on or upon)

Related Words

• play (on or upon)
• impose (on or upon)
• manipulate
• capitalize (on)
• use
• pimp
• leverage
• cash in (on)
• mistreat
• abuse
• milk
• exploit
• work
• stick
• skin
• cheat
• soak
• bleed
• commercialize
• fleece
• overcharge
• commodify

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of jerk around

The view of his phone camera jerks around, points up to the sky and captures a glimpse of his masked face. — Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 13 Jan. 2026

Ciri gets a bit more agency and backbone, a welcome evolution for a character who has been jerked around by the plot, her allies and her enemies for too long. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025

And that’s not even taking into consideration the continual jerking around of Busy Philipps. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 July 2025

He was locked up to be a franchise player, and franchise players aren’t typically jerked around like that. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 18 June 2025

The vehicles are tricked out with surround sound, too; and at one point on our joyride the bus was jerked around by the bus driver to simulate the sensation of a subway speeding underfoot. — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 5 May 2025

The shocking news out of this summer’s Olympic break-dancing competition in Paris wasn’t that a female Australian competitor had hopped and jerked around like Uma Thurman being revived from a drug coma in Pulp Fiction. — Christian Schneider, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024

The camera jerks around to emphasize the Captain’s growing panic. — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 19 May 2024