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jerkying up

jerkying up is the present participle and gerund of jerky up.

Meaning of jerky up

Verb

jerky up (third-person singular simple present jerkies up, present participle jerkying up, simple past and past participle jerkied up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To turn (something) into jerky (dried meat).

Questions about jerkying up

What is jerkying up the present participle and gerund of?
Jerkying up is the present participle and gerund of jerky up.

Words near jerkying up in the dictionary

  1. jerkweed
  2. jerkweeds
  3. jerky
  4. jerky up
  5. jerkying
  6. jerkying up
  7. Jermain
  8. Jermaine
  9. Jermann
  10. Jermantown
  11. Jermuk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jerkying up (page history and authors); jerky up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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