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.
  • 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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