Etymology

outjerk

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Today it means: To surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”). Full definition →

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From out- + jerk. The latter definition is derived from circlejerk (“a community, usually online, that acts as an echo chamber for a specific topic of conversation, often deliberately in a satirical, self-aware fashion”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.