The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word JERK
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result JERK
- Yank is fool
- In Monte Carlo, I join Royal couple in tug
- Stupid person cutting end off sun-dried meat strips
- . Yank‘s jack and king capturing queen
- Queen escorted by her neighbours from deck in tug
- Quick move made to get cured meat
- Yank is a dunce
- Yank‘s clothing slips off hip
- Idiot preserved meat
- Heckle, dismissing one European king as fool
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The straight part
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What does JERK mean?
JERK noun- A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
- A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- A dull or stupid person.
- A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable.
- The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
- A soda jerk.
- A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
- To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
- To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- To masturbate.
- To beat, to hit.
- To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
- (usually transitive) To lift using a jerk.
- To flout with contempt.
- A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
- Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
- To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.