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Answer for the clue "Someone who gives a strong sudden pull ", 6 letters:
jerker

Word definitions for jerker in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A North American river chub ((taxlink Hybopsis biguttatus species noshow=1)). 2 Someone or something that jerks.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker ) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley . The two-character ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who gives a strong sudden pull [syn: yanker ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jerker \Jerk"er\, n. A beater. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. One who jerks or moves with a jerk. (Zo["o]l.) A North American river chub ( Hybopsis biguttatus ).

Usage examples of jerker.

He pulled on his boots and crammed his head into his jerker, then wandered like a somnambulist from the room.

Private detective agencies, telephone company employees, newsboys, soda jerkers, waitresses, doormen, elevator operators.

Slumlord Gretch also starred in the only Sid Weinberg vehicle ever to lose money, a tear jerker called "Glenda" about a movie producer who falls in love with a starlet who disappears off the face of the earth.