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Jerkball (noun) means (informal) An annoying or unpleasant person.

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(informal) An annoying or unpleasant person.

""Even half-speed, even mailing it in," Hilton said, "he works twice as hard as three-quarters of the jerkballs in this place."" — Joe Klein, The Running Mate (2000)

""A lot of people think he's a jerkball," Darrell told me Thursday with emotion over the phone from his home in Washington D.C., where he is a territorial manager for a medical laboratory company." — Terence Moore, With Apologies To ESPN, There Is That Other Bob Knight (2018)

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