jerk vs turkey

jerk

noun
  • A dull or stupid person. 

  • A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. 

  • The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time. 

  • A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time. 

  • A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable. 

  • Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui. 

  • A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. 

  • A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. 

verb
  • To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun. 

  • To masturbate. 

  • To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. 

  • To lift using a jerk. 

  • To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. 

turkey

noun
  • A foolish or inept person. 

  • The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. 

  • A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated). 

  • With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)). 

  • A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer. 

  • A failure. 

  • An act of throwing three strikes in a row. 

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