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Meaning of jerky

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  jerky
      adj 1: lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn:
             {arrhythmic}, {jerking}, {jerky}]
      2: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn: {choppy},
         {jerky}]
      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}, {jerky}]
      n 1: meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
           [syn: {jerky}, {jerked meat}, {jerk}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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