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noun
A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, Zimbabwe, countable, uncountable
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noun
meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: jerky, jerked meat, jerk
History
Borrowed from Afrikaans biltong, from bil (“buttock, hindquarter”) + tong (“tongue, strip”).
