jerked meat

1. 1.

   meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

   Synonymsjerkyjerk

   Broadermeat

   Narrowerbeef jerkybiltong

Questions about jerked meat

What does jerked meat mean?

jerked meat means "meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun".

What is another word for jerked meat?

Close synonyms include jerky, jerk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jerked meat a common word?

jerked meat 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.