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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rail transport, derogatory) A branch line train, using light equipment.
The mail was brought by a tiny "jerk-water" bobtail dummy and coach run by one, Tony, from Pearl City, a mile away, to a station near the end of the peninsula.
That seems to disappoint them, for every sociologist likes to go back to some jerk-water college and tell those who are in the sociological class how they had to get their information by pantomime."
He had risen to the head of the greatest street car system in the world from the position of brakeman on a jerk-water railroad.
Can the keen-minded Mr. Willard at Baltimore be more anxious than the keen-minded Mr. Rea at Philadelphia to undertake the management of jerk-water branches in Connecticut or in Rhode Island or down on Cape Cod ?
Use jerk-water when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jerk-water means (rail transport, derogatory) A branch line train, using light equipment.
Common synonyms include See: Thesaurus:remote place.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The mail was brought by a tiny "jerk-water" bobtail dummy and coach run by one, Tony, from Pearl City, a mile away, to a station near the end of the peninsula.
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