clean and jerk

1. 1.

   a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead

   Synonymsclean

   Broaderweightlift

   Partsjerk

Questions about clean and jerk

What does clean and jerk mean?

clean and jerk means "a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead".

What is another word for clean and jerk?

Close synonyms include clean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clean and jerk a common word?

clean and jerk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.