The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STREAKY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STREAKY
- Such bacon uneven in quality?
- Beef about rare variable sort of bacon
- Valuable cargo sure to be lost in weather that’s unreliable
- Oddball forbidding female in pig enclosure produces particular bacon?
- Having different bands of inconsistent quality
- Like some bacon, variable in quality
- Barred from gym, stripped after naked run
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What does STREAKY mean?
STREAKY adjective- Having streaks.
- Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (chiefly of a person, usually North America) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.