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jerkwater

/ˈd͡ʒɚk.wɔ.tɚ/

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

A jerkwater town.
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(US, historical) A train on a branch line.
- […] by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road. — 1975

adjective1

(informal, disapproving) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.

forms

jerkwaters · more jerkwater · most jerkwater

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