jerkass

plural jerkasses · alternative jerk ass · alternative jerk-ass

1. derogatoryslangAn obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.

   Breaking up is fairly easy. Sometimes you have a jerkass who won't take the hint.

   2003, Kim Corum, Heartbreaker, →ISBN, page 20

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   Plus, we can always use a reminder that this city's music scene is plenty big, even if some teen jerkass from Washington doesn't think so.

   2006 May 4, Sam Machkovech, “Awards Anticipation”, in Dallas Observer

   Braff has never impressed me as an actor of significant range, and he still doesn't. But this is a careful, subtle performance […] Considering what Michael does -- embark on a hot-and-heavy flirtation with a college-age gamine he meets at a friend's wedding -- it would have been easy to make the character a cliché of noncommittal jerkass dudeliness.

   2006 September 15, Andrew O'Hehir, “"The Last Kiss"”, in Salon.com