beef jerky
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2.0
- noun
- /biːf ˈdʒɜrki/
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- I packed some beef jerky for our hiking trip since it's a great snack.
- a piece of beef jerky
- a bag of beef jerky
- a package of beef jerky
he comes right in and breaks out his beef jerky and starts to give it out.
- he comes right in and breaks out his beef jerky and starts to give it out.
- Now this just tastes like beef jerky to me.
- So we're going to start with a bit of a contest here, a beef jerky eating contest.
- But there is actually no difference between me eating a piece of beef jerky and a sandwich.
- Many experts out there would include deli meat and pepperoni and beef jerky in the category of highly processed foods.
- It it's going to taste sweet or salty if that's what you're looking for, or meaty, you know, go and buy some beef jerky or something like that.
- Like too much cold soup, not great, too much beef jerky.
- We have happy dad now we'll probably have we have our our beef jerky brand board jerky.
- We've had a lot of extra beef straps during this video and we'll probably have enough beef jerky to last a couple years that is actually delicious.
Examples
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Many experts out there would include deli meat and pepperoni and beef jerky in the category of highly processed foods.
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And for you, beef jerky with a side of hot sauce.
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It's called beef jerky, so you have to go try it out.
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Anybody gets hungry, I have beef jerky.
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A bag of chips or some beef jerky will do me fine.
Fiction book (1991) -
So we're going to start with a bit of a contest here, a beef jerky eating contest.
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But we had two kinds of beef jerky to choose from, Jack Links and Alberto.
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Take simple foods like trail mix, granola bars, beef jerky, and dried fruit.
Academic text (1995) -
Thelma is passing out beef jerky and Wild Turkey to Hitchhiker and Louise.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the service station office, I bought some really gross snacks—beef jerky, peanut butter crackers, and gummy bears.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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3.7
Thin strips of dried meat eaten as a snack
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6.8
Dry strips of meat, often salted for long storage
Meat cut into thin strips and dried to keep it for a long time
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'jerky' denotes thin strips of dried, salted meat and 'beef' specifies the source, so 'beef jerky' straightforwardly means jerky made from beef. This noun+noun modification pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Beef jerky comes from the simple image of thin strips of beef that are salted and dried; the word jerky means dried meat. That's why beef jerky today refers to a long-lasting, portable snack, because drying the meat 'preserved' it for trips.