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Jerkwater

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Informal Remote, small, and insignificant: a jerkwater town.

adj. Informal Contemptibly trivial: jerkwater notions.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A train on a branch line.

adj. Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. small and remote and insignificant.

adj. Off the main railroad line.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. small and remote and insignificant

Word Usage

"From Daggett, a forsaken station of the Santa Fé Railroad, a "jerkwater" road, as it is called, extends northward to Goldfield and Tonopah, and this road takes one almost as the crow flies to the edge of the valley of the ominous name."

Equivalent

provincial

Form

jerkwater town

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

one-horse pokey poky remote place

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