meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
<noun.food> [ adj ]
lacking a steady rhythm
<adj.all> an arrhythmic heartbeat
marked by abrupt transitions
<adj.all> choppy prose
having or revealing stupidity
<adj.all> ridiculous anserine behavior a dopey answer a dopey kid some fool idea about rewriting authors' books
jerky \jerk"y\, n. [Corrupted from Peruv. charqui dried beef.] Meat, especially beef, that has been cut in strips and dried; meat that has been jerked; see first {jerk}, v.; as, beef jerky [PJC]
jerky \jerk"y\, a. 1. Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
2. Foolish; ridiculous; stupid. [slang] [PJC]
My own was jerky and bewildering.
BT says the kit will send video at 15-frames a second when it goes on sale. At this speed, video images will be rather jerky (it may look as if the person you are talking to has just come back from a boozy lunch).
He also has a limp, which fits accounts from witnesses that the killer walked in a "jerky" way while following the Palmes for several blocks after they left the theater, the radio reported.
Irwin swoons for dancer Margaret Eginton, who spoofs the angular, jerky movements of modern dance.
And there's genuine Kiowa Indian beef jerky.
A full set of feathers fetches about $200. Their meat brings about $7 a pound and ostrich jerky sells for about $17 a pound.
The Japanese, he says, are wild about "cowboys and Indians and mountain men," so genuine U.S. jerky ought to be a hot seller.
And tasty wine-marinated beef jerky can be had for just $35 a pound.
The video image of participants is small and rather jerky at 15 frames per minute.
Another example involves beef jerky made by the Apache Meat Processing Co., Apache, Okla., owned by Robert Rowell, a Kiowa Indian.
His beef jerky attracted so much attention that Rowell received an order from Harrod's, the famous London department store.
But it just so happens that oil output moves in a jerky manner as rigs are taken in and out of action.
But the report added that Rowell is installing a water chlorinator at his processing plant and is hoping to get back into the British jerky market.
Projected onto a big screen, "DuckTales" action would look jerky and uneven.