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jerkwater
noun
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 road.
adjective
(
US, colloquial, pejorative
) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward
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