1. (noun)jerky, jerked meat, jerk meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
2. (adj)arrhythmic, jerking, jerky lacking a steadyrhythm "an arrhythmic heartbeat"
3. (adj)choppy, jerky marked by abrupt transitions "choppy prose"
4. (adj)anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky having or revealingstupidity "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"