jerky (n.)

  1. meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

    [ Syn: jerked meat , jerk ]

    jerky (adj.)

  1. lacking a steady rhythm; an arrhythmic heartbeat

    [ Syn: arrhythmic , jerking ]

  2. marked by abrupt transitions; choppy prose

    [ Syn: choppy ]

  3. having or revealing stupidity; ridiculous anserine behavior; a dopey answer; a dopey kid; some fool idea about rewriting authors books

    [ Syn: anserine , dopy , dopey , foolish , goosey , goosy , gooselike ]

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