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jerkwater adjective provincial US, 1897- He’d killed half a dozen people before he picked up a jerkwater Ph.D., and edged into psychiatry. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 167, 1952
- “What,” he asked, “are we going to do for broads in a jerkwater town like Putnam’s Landing?” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 157, 1957
- Harrisonville and the fastblink jerkwater towns clustered about it–Peculiar, Lone Jack, Gunn City, attract more funnel clouds each hardluck year than anyplace else. — Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse, p. 5, 1973
- — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railraod Slang, p. 108, 1975
- Here I come to your jerkwater little country and spend my good American dollars[.] — William Burroughs, Queer, p. 59, 1985
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