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Jerky   /dʒˈərki/   Listen
adjective
jerky  adj.  
1.
Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
2.
Foolish; ridiculous; stupid. (slang)


noun
jerky  n.  Meat, especially beef, that has been cut in strips and dried; meat that has been jerked; see first jerk, v.; as, beef jerky





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"Jerky" Quotes from Famous Books



... friends if, by any chance, the posse should find his cave. He took my rifle. He can see them coming; he'll have every advantage against attack; and there's another way out of the cave, up on top of the hill. There's just one thing against him. There wasn't even a canteen here. He took some jerky and canned stuff—but only one measly beer bottle of water. When that's used up it's going to be a dull time for him. We can't get water to him very handy without leaving some sign. We mustn't get hostile ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... Fyodor Lukitch!" he said in a jerky voice, on seeing Sysoev. "How delightful! You have come in spite of your illness. Gentlemen, let me congratulate you, Fyodor Lukitch ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... gentle movement of the elevator is necessary. A jerky movement may change the direction of motion so suddenly as to produce dangerous air stresses upon the surfaces, in which case there ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber
... with a jerk, ran with increasing gait for a hundred yards, and then suddenly the jerky progress ceased. The machine swayed gently from side to side, and looking over, the passenger saw the ground ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace
... sat down on a wooden garden-seat, leaned on his elbow, and began to watch this door and Lisa's window. In the town it struck midnight; a little clock in the house shrilly clanged out twelve; the watchman beat it with jerky strokes upon his board. Lavretsky had no thought, no expectation; it was sweet to him to feel himself near Lisa, to sit in her garden on the seat where she herself had sat more ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev


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