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
- Do not make any jerky movements.
- Sorry that it's so short and jerky.
- The way it is now the storyline is jerky.
- It is also used to flavor jerky and tofu.
- Their movement is jerky and in a forward direction.
- Cartman happily feeds some of the jerky to one of the calves.
- I hear that beef jerky tastes 'much' better than human jerky.
- I said a jerky thing in an unaccountable way and didn't own up to it.
- Beef Jerky comes from the word in the ancient incan language in Quechua.
- They lived in hovels and marched for days on beef jerky and parched cornmeal.
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