jerky

Plural: jerkies

Noun

• Lean meat, typically beef, cut into strips and dried.
• meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
• Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.

Adjective Satellite

• lacking a steady rhythm
• marked by abrupt transitions
• having or revealing stupidity

Adj

• Characterized by physical jerking.
• Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).

Verb

• To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.

Adjective

• Characterized by sudden, irregular, or spasmodic movements.

Examples

• Eating JERKY during a long Scrabble session helped him concentrate.
• His gameplay was JERKY, full of hesitant picks and sudden, wild tile placements.
• jerky behaviour
• jerky flight
• jerky guy
• jerky movement
• jerky sounds

Synonyms

anserine, arrhythmic, choppy, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerk, jerked meat, jerking

Related Words

Quechuan chunyu, beef jerky, biltong, jerk, jerked beef, jerked meat, pemican, pemmican, smoked meat, smoker, JERKILY

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