"jerkball" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"Even half-speed, even mailing it in,\" Hilton said, \"he works twice as hard as three-quarters of the jerkballs in this place.\"",
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          "text": "\"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.",
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        "An unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk."
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        "(informal, derogatory) An unpleasant or obnoxious person; a jerk."
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