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jerkwater
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective jerkwater has 1 sense
- jerkwater(s = adj.all) one-horse, pokey, poky - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
CIDE DICTIONARY
jerkwater, adj. [from jerk + water, a place where it is necessary to draw (jerk) water to supply the boiler of a steam engine.].
- small and remote and insignificant; as, a jerkwater college. [WordNet 1.5]
- Off the main railroad line. [PJC]
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