[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
jerk 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

jerky \jerk"y\, a.
   1. moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt
      transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
      1913 webster

   2. foolish; ridiculous; stupid. slang
      pjc

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

jerky
     adj : not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" syn:
           arrhythmic, jerking, unsteady
     n : meat cut in strips and dried in the sun syn: jerked meat
     also: jerkiest, jerkier
see also:
arrhythmic jerking unsteady jerked meat jerkiest jerkier 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

154 moby thesaurus words for "jerky":
   aspic, barbecue, beef, beef extract, beef tea, boiled meat,
   bouilli, bouillon, broken, broken off, bully, bully beef,
   capricious, careening, cataclysmic, catchy, changeable, changing,
   charqui, chipped beef, chopped-off, choppy, civet, convulsive,
   decousu, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different,
   disastrous, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete,
   disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified,
   diversiform, dried beef, eccentric, eclamptic, episodic, erose,
   erratic, fidgety, fitful, flesh, flickering, fluctuating,
   forcemeat, game, ground beef, guttering, hachis, halting,
   hamburger, hash, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, impulsive,
   incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting,
   interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerking, jiggety, joint,
   jugged hare, jumpy, lurching, meat, menue viande, mercurial, mince,
   motley, mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear,
   nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, orgasmic,
   parenthetic, paroxysmal, pastrami, patchy, pemmican, pluralistic,
   pot roast, ragged, rambling, roast, roast beef, rough, salt beef,
   saltatory, sausage meat, scrapple, scrappy, seismic, snatchy,
   spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty,
   staggering, suet, suspended, twitchety, twitching, twitchy,
   uncertain, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unjoined,
   unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unregular, unrhythmical,
   unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic,
   ununiform, upheaving, variable, variegated, variform, various,
   varying, veering, vellicative, venison, viande, wandering,
   wavering, wobbling, wobbly

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