Crossword-Solution: JERKY 5 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Jerky a. Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt
transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

We have 46 clues for the answer “JERKY”

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Mountain man's dried beef. 1 answer
Beef __: dried meat 1 answer
Beef chew 1 answer
Beef treat 1 answer
Chewy strips 1 answer
Dried beef 1 answer
Dried beef snack 1 answer
Dried meat snack 1 answer
Dried meat treat 1 answer
Having irregular movements 1 answer
Herky-__: erratic 1 answer
Beef __ (dried meat snack) 1 answer
Rough, as a car engine 1 answer
Snack whose name comes from the Quechua for "dried meat" 1 answer
Stop-and-start, start-and-stop 1 answer
Sun-dried beef 1 answer
Turkey snack 1 answer
meat cut in strips and dried in the sun 1 answer
saccadic 1 answer
In fits and starts – cured meat in air-dried strips 1 answer
Moving unevenly 1 answer
Moving in fits and starts 2 answers
deer meat 2 answers
Charqui 2 answers
Twitching. 3 answers
Meat strip that is dried and salted 3 answers
On-again-off-again 3 answers
DRIED meat 4 answers
It's cut and dried 4 answers
Boneheaded 7 answers
BEEF PRODUCT 10 answers
BY FITS AND STARTS 10 answers
Not smooth 12 answers
Spasmodic 12 answers
Wagon 21 answers
Jolting 31 answers
fitful 36 answers
Beef 43 answers
Inane 53 answers
Uneven 60 answers
"Ridiculous!" 64 answers
Incoherent 65 answers
disconnected 72 answers
Abrupt 77 answers
erratic 79 answers
Unsteady 91 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JERKY (5)

When she fights strong and the tiller slips a little, in a jerky, greasy sort of way, let up on her a trifle; it is the way she tells you at night that the water is too shoal; but keep edging her up, little by little, toward the point.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Was she not, indeed, too free, too fluent, for perfect naturalness? And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? Dorset indeed was always jerky; but it seemed to Selden that tonight each vibration swung him farther from his centre.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
The first thing I saw when I looked out of the window was Cullingworth, exactly the same as ever, striding in his jerky way down the platform, his coat flying open, his chin thrust forward (he is the most under-hung man I have ever seen), and his great teeth all gleaming, like a good-natured blood-hound.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
And then Theodore was bowing his little jerky bows, and he was shaking hands with Stock, and with the First Violin.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
Then the one who goes to give warning must cross the pavement before him and say in a low voice, 'The Lamp is lighted!' and at once turn quietly away." What boy's heart would not have leaped with joy at the mystery of it! Even a common and dull boy who knew nothing of Samavia would have felt jerky.
The Lost Prince Francis Hodgson Burnett 2004

Quotes with JERKY (3)

Beside me, Molly rolled her shoulders in a few jerky motions and pushed at her hair in fitful little gestures. She tugged at her well-tattered skirts, and grimaced at her boots. "Can you see if there’s any mud on them?" I paused to consider her for a second. Then I said, "You have two tattoos showing right now, and you probably used a fake ID to get them. Your piercings would set off any metal detector worth the name, and you’re featuring them in parts of your anatomy your pa…
Jim Butcher Proven Guilty
Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after century, the large and easy interior rhythms of a year that moves from birth, life, death, resurrection, on to spirit, obedience, faith, and blessing. Without liturgy we lose the rhythms and end up tangled in the jerky, ill-timed, and insensitive interruptions of public-relations camp…
Eugene H. Peterson Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that, up and down, all the way out to the side and in. Then he did the same with my left leg. He ordered X rays then started to leave the room. I panicked. I MUST GET DRUGS." What can I take for the pain?" I asked him before he got out the door." You can take some over the counter ibuprofen," he suggested. "B…
Laurie Notaro The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 26 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).