[dʒəːkt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of meat or fish) seasoned or marinated in a blend of chilli, allspice, and other ingredients and barbecued over a wood fire
(e.g: the food was great, especially the jerked chicken and ribs)

- (of meat, especially beef) cured by being cut into long thin strips and dried


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Origin:
late 17th century (as girk't): either from jerkin, in the same sense (based on Quechua ch'arkini ‘prepare dried meat’), or from Latin American Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki ‘dried meat’. Compare with jerk