outjerk

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UK/aʊtˈdʒɜːk/US/aʊtˈdʒɜɹk/

verb

To surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”).

Scrabble 18

Meanings

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

present singular third person outjerks · participle present outjerking · participle past outjerked · past outjerked

  1. slangtransitiveTo surpass in being a jerk (“unlikable or obnoxious person”).

    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.”

    2005, Jean Brashear, Mercy, Don Mills, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 394
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    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.

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

    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.”

    2013, Kathy Altman, Staying at Joe's, Don Mills, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, pages 98–99
  2. transitiveReddit slangTo be more satirical than, often used when something (usually unintentionally) comes across as even more satirical than a parody of said thing.

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

    2024 February 12, u/Femboy_Lord, “The most noncredible method for funding your Nuclear Weapons Program”, in Reddit, r/NonCredibleDefense, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024
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    Starcraft circlejerk sub still hasn't outjerked the original Starcraft Sub

    2015 January 18, u/Evulrabbitz, “Is taking a pocket avocado to a restaurant too /r/frugal?”, in Reddit, r/SubredditDrama, archived from the original on 28 Jul 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.

    2020 September 29, u/freakedmind, “He's the inverted false 9 trequista regista reumdeuter center-back, what's so hard to understand? 🙄🙄”, in Reddit, r/soccercirclejerk

    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

    2022 June 10, u/MSFT400EOY, “Least stupid question asker”, in Reddit, r/nbacirclejerk

Origin

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”).

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Cite this entry
APA

outjerk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outjerk

MLA

“outjerk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outjerk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outjerk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outjerk.

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