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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

jerkwater

· IPA /ˈd͡ʒɚk.wɔ.tɚ/
01 adj. small and remote and insignificant; as, a jerkwater college.
  1. 1.
    small and remote and insignificant; as, a jerkwater college.
  2. 2.
    Off the main railroad line.(Railroads) [Archaic]
Syn. one-horse, pokey, poky.