a jerkwater town

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• jerkwater town — noun A small town with minimal facilities and conveniences. Syn: backwater, one horse town, Podunk …   Wiktionary

• jerkwater — ☆ jerkwater [jʉrk′wôt΄ər ] n. [ JERK1 + WATER: prob. in reference to pulling the valve on the water tank to fill the engine boiler] a train on an early branch railroad adj. Informal small, unimportant, etc. [a jerkwater town] …   English World dictionary

• jerkwater — mod. backwoodsy; insignificant. (See also one horse town.) □ I’m from a little jerkwater town in the Midwest. □ He’s sort of the jerkwater type …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• jerkwater — /jerrk waw teuhr, wot euhr/, adj. 1. Informal. insignificant and out of the way: a jerkwater town. 2. (formerly) off the main line: a jerkwater train. n. 3. (formerly) a train not running on the main line. [1875 80, Amer.; JERK1 + WATER; so… …   Universalium

• jerkwater — A combination of jerk and backwater. Used to describe someone or something that is stupid and jerky. I gotta get out of this jerkwater town. Used at: http://www.myentireass.com/forum/1021016933,78386,.shtml …   Dictionary of american slang

• jerkwater — A combination of jerk and backwater. Used to describe someone or something that is stupid and jerky. I gotta get out of this jerkwater town. Used at: http://www.myentireass.com/forum/1021016933,78386,.shtml …   Dictionary of american slang

• jerkwater — jerk•wa•ter [[t]ˈdʒɜrkˌwɔ tər, ˌwɒt ər[/t]] adj. inf insignificant and out of the way: a jerkwater town[/ex] • Etymology: 1875–80; so called from the jerking (i.e., drawing) of water to fill buckets for supplying a steam locomotive …   From formal English to slang

• town — n. 1) a boom; ghost ( deserted ); jerkwater (AE; colloq.), one horse, provincial, sleepy, small; market (BE) town (they live in a sleepy, little town) 2) a company town 3) smb. s hometown 4) a county town (BE; AE has county seat) 5) (misc.) to… …   Combinatory dictionary

• town — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. hamlet, burg[h], village. See abode. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. civic, community, civil; see municipal , urban 2 . n. 1. [In the United States, a small collection of dwellings] Syn. hamlet, county… …   English dictionary for students

• one-horse town — noun A very small town. Its surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise its just a one horse town. Syn: backwater, jerkwater town, Podunk …   Wiktionary

• Water stop — A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where trains stop to replenish water. The stopping of the train itself is also referred to as water stop . The term originates from the times of steam engines, when large amounts of water… …   Wikipedia