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#US 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.

Adjective
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#US|colloquial|pejorative Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward

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