beef jerky

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   strips of dried beef

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Questions about beef jerky

What does beef jerky mean?

beef jerky means "strips of dried beef".

Is beef jerky a common word?

beef jerky is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.