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jerky

/ˈd͡ʒɝki/ noun C2
  1. Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun. (countable, uncountable)

Plural jerkies

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It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 310 · C1
His grey clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 84 · C1

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