jerky

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.

Verb

  • To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.

Related

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Origin

  • jerk + -y
  • Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.

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