jerky
IPA: dʒˈɝki
noun
- Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
verb
- (transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.
adjective
- Characterized by physical jerking.
- Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).
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Examples of "jerky" in Sentences
- The word "jerky" is believed to have come from the Spanish word charque which means roughly "dried meat."
- Most storebought jerky is dry and leathery because it is salt cured, chemically preserved, smoked or treated with liquid smoke, and processed to meet USDA standards for storage at room temp.
- If the Fed engaged in "jerky" monetary policy in order to generate unanticipated inflation, then it might have some short term impact on real wages, but there would have to be a permanent monetary illusion to have lasting effect.
- Not dust, shrapnel (and Orphan, moving in jerky, dreamlike motions, grabbed hold of Lucy and let himself fall to the ground, his weight dragging her with him, his body first cushioning her fall and then covering her in a protective embrace) -
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