English

Noun

jerkwater ‎(plural jerkwaters)

1. (US, historical) A train on a branch line.
   • 1975, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 71, no. 1 (Mar. 1975), page 355

     […] 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.

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Adjective

jerkwater ‎(comparative more jerkwater, superlative most jerkwater)

1. (US, colloquial, pejorative) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.

Synonyms

• See: Wikisaurus:remote place

Derived terms

• jerkwater town

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Related terms

• jerk water
• jerk-water