Knee-jerk

What is Knee-jerk?


1.

A spontaneous, thoughless, predictable and stereotypical reaction to something, usually an opinion or a statement.

An entire culture of American neo-conservatives has seemed to build itself on a type of knee-jerk reaction to any kind of criticism of the Bush Administration or the loyal element of the Republican Party, even from fellow conservatives -- the kind of pseudo-patriotism discouraged by Theodore Roosevelt.

2.

automatic, quick and without thought

Allergies are the immune system's knee-jerk defensive responses to unknown substances.

See reflex, gut reaction


8

Random Words:

1. be a hyper kid ur were a happy muffin yesterday i think u had to much sugar See elaina..
1. A small undeveloped vegetable created by combining an artichoke and a cabbage. "Artichoke and Cabbage went to Ireland and got knoc..
1. ==Zousted== Zousted is a term that describes an act of immense drunkenness. This drunkenness is only considered ZOUSTED when the said z..