Jerky

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by jerks or jerking: a jerky train ride.
  • adj. Slang Foolish; silly: jerky ideas about saving money.
  • n. Meat cured by jerking. Also called charqui.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
  • adj. Characterized by physical jerking.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions
  • adj. Foolish; ridiculous; stupid.
  • n. Meat, especially beef, that has been cut in strips and dried; meat that has been jerked; see first jerk, v.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a jerking character; acting by jerks; spasmodic; capricious; impatient.
  • n. See the extract.
  • n. See jerk.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking a steady rhythm
  • n. meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
  • adj. marked by abrupt transitions
  • adj. having or revealing stupidity
  • Equivalent
    unsteady    sudden    stupid   
    Cross Reference
    freeze dried    pemican    biltong    air-dried    pemmican    smoker    sun dried    smoked    chunyu   
    Variant
    jerkiest    jerkier    jerk   
    Form
    jerk    jerked meat    jerked beef   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    foolish    ridiculous    stupid    abrupt    twitchy    jiggety    jiggish    hitchy    tossing    yanking   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Turkey    murky    perky    quirky    turkey   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unsteady    convulsive    curt    erratic    abrupt    uneven    sideways    hesitant    brisk    tremulous