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beef jerky

beef jerky noun: jerked meat of bovine origin.

Noun

beef jerky (countable and uncountable, plural beef jerkies)

  1. Jerked meat of bovine origin.

Forms of beef jerky

pluralbeef jerkies

Origin of beef jerky

From beef + jerky.

Questions about beef jerky

What does beef jerky mean?
Beef jerky means jerked meat of bovine origin.
What part of speech is beef jerky?
Beef jerky is a noun.
What is the plural of beef jerky?
The plural of beef jerky is beef jerkies.

Words near beef jerky in the dictionary

  1. beef houses
  2. beef injection
  3. beef injections
  4. Beef Island
  5. beef jerkies
  6. beef jerky
  7. beef mami
  8. beef measles
  9. beef mince
  10. beef olive
  11. beef olives

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