Usually means: Dried, seasoned meat, chewy snack.
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  1. jerky: Merriam-Webster
  2. jerky, jerky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jerky, jerky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jerky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jerky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jerky, jerky: Wordnik
  7. jerky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jerky: Wiktionary
  9. jerky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jerky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jerky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jerky, jerky: Dictionary.com
  13. jerky (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jerky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jerky (food), Jerky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jerky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jerky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jerky: Rhymezone
  19. Jerky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jerky: FreeDictionary.org
  21. jerky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. jerky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. jerky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jerky: Encyclopedia

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  1. Jerky (food), jerky: Medical dictionary

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Jerky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jerkier as well.)

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adjective:  Characterized by physical jerking.
adjective:  Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).
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.

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