Characterized by physical jerking. / Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).

Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.

(transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.

(transitive) To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials. / To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.

Unthinking, not carefully considered, (nearly) automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable.

A sudden reflexive movement of the leg below the knee, as a reaction to a tap to the tendon just below the patella (kneecap).

A city in the province of Cádiz, western Andalusia, Spain. Official name: Jerez de la Frontera. / A town in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. Official name: Jerez de los Caballeros.

(archaic) sherry

A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England. / A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey. / An English earldom.

A cow of the Jersey breed.