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Jerky

Jerky Meaning & Definition
Jerky Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jerky?

[n] meat cut in strips and dried in the sun
[adj] not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Jerky: arrhythmic | irregular | jerked meat | jerking | unsteady

Related Terms | Find terms related to Jerky: aspic | barbecue | beef | beef extract | beef tea | boiled meat | bouilli | bouillon | broken | broken off | bully | bully beef | capricious | careening | cataclysmic | catchy | changeable | changing | charqui | chipped beef | chopped-off | choppy | civet | convulsive | decousu | desultory | deviating | deviative | deviatory | different | disastrous | disconnected | discontinued | discontinuous | discrete | disjunctive | disorderly | divaricate | divergent | diversified | diversiform | dried beef | eccentric | eclamptic | episodic | erose | erratic | fidgety | fitful | flesh | flickering | fluctuating | forcemeat | game | ground beef | guttering | hachis | halting | hamburger | hash | herky-jerky | heteroclite | immethodical | impulsive | incoherent | inconsistent | inconstant | intermittent | intermitting | interrupted | irregular | jagged | jerking | jiggety | joint | jugged hare | jumpy | lurching | meat | menue viande | mercurial | mince | motley | mutable | nonconformist | noncontinuous | nonlinear | nonsequential | nonserial | nonstandard | nonuniform | orgasmic | parenthetic | paroxysmal | pastrami | patchy | pemmican | pluralistic | pot roast | ragged | rambling | roast | roast beef | rough | salt beef | saltatory | sausage meat | scrapple | scrappy | seismic | snatchy | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | spastic | sporadic | spotty | staggering | suet | suspended | twitchety | twitching | twitchy | uncertain | unconnected | unequable | unequal | uneven | unjoined | unmethodical | unmetrical | unorthodox | unregular | unrhythmical | unsettled | unstable | unsteady | unsuccessive | unsystematic | ununiform | upheaving | variable | variegated | variform | various | varying | veering | vellicative | venison | viande | wandering | wavering | wobbling | wobbly

See Also | beef jerky | biltong | meat

Jerky In Webster's Dictionary

\Jerk"y\, a. Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

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