Meanings
present singular third person outjerks · participle present outjerking · participle past outjerked · past outjerked
- 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 3942 more examples
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 - 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 20243 more examples
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 2024Oh 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/soccercirclejerkIt'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
outjerk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outjerk
“outjerk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outjerk. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outjerk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outjerk.
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