A jerkwater college. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a jerkwater town. ,a jerkwater train. From Dictionary.com.
He had actually built up the Hendrickton and Pas Alos from a narrow-gauge, "jerkwater" road into a part of a great cross-continent system that tapped a wonderfully rich territory on both sides of the. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
Greensboro isn't that much of a jerkwater town ... is it?. From Wordnik.com. [Where's Slumdog Millionaire?] Reference
It might help you to come across as less of a smarmy jerkwater. From Wordnik.com. [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: WTF?] Reference
"But those are just the kind of backward, jerkwater planets where ...". From Wordnik.com. [The Last Starfighter]
He couldn't get tenure at the jerkwater community college he taught at. From Wordnik.com. ["If you don't pass universal health care by July of 2009... I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."] Reference
March 25th, 2010 at 11: 53 am tombaker says: jerkwater jihadis are not real patriots. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » McCain refuses to condemn Palin’s ‘reload’ rhetoric.] Reference
He's something, professor of history in a jerkwater two-year college, and a great man. From Wordnik.com. [Legacy]
And maybe in little jerkwater hamlets like Delisle it does, but not among civil Canadians. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Electronically toned but not without a human quality, Matt thought, a trace of jerkwater swerve. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
But you know even better than I, Freya is a jerkwater planet on the very fringe of human civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Trader To The Stars]
They came from Chicago and jerkwater towns in Nebraska, from farms and steel mills, from the stage and the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
She may have been successful in some little, out-of-the-way academy in a jerkwater town, but she's sadly out of place here. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Man] Reference
I was president of Fowler Schocken Associates and he was only the board chairman of a jerkwater local police outfit, but that was too much. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Merchants]
Lately, Karma has made a big hit on television in the least expected of settings an unnamed, jerkwater town somewhere in southern wherever. From Wordnik.com. [I'LL HAVE A SIDE OF KARMA WITH THAT] Reference
Three weeks later I was bounced from Criminal Investigation, transferred to Public Safety, and outward bound to a jerkwater world in the Perseus Spur. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
On the morning of February 19, 1945 Ralph was among the tens of thousands of soldiers who stormed the black volcanic sand beaches of a jerkwater Japanese island named Iwo Jima. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermon I’ll Never Forget] Reference
He should be offered the vista of a dignified retirement and the prospect of a vice-presidential library in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that 'absolute jerkwater of a town' where he was raised. From Wordnik.com. [TBD: A hyperlocal work in progress] Reference
He's never been out of a jerkwater burg in his life, hardly. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
I'm glad Tub is at Minnesota and I will soon be glad BCG is in jerkwater, texas. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky Sports Radio] Reference
He's a Sunday night talk show jerkwater who has the bad taste to label himself "a great American.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I do not wish to share the birthday of the USA with that of a jerkwater country that is happy about their BS Coup. From Wordnik.com. [NBC Miami - Top Stories] Reference
We'll have to locate the tanks and keep a guard there; we'll have to pull off a franchise for our little jerkwater railroad. From Wordnik.com. [Copper Streak Trail] Reference
And we can empty that pocket just as well with a little jerkwater outfit like this as we could with a big crew and a real mill. From Wordnik.com. [The Killer] Reference
And yet at the same time I can't help but feel like this is some desperate jerkwater in the middle of Turkey that smells a fast payday. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
But a story line was sealed in the national press that painted the Stephens family as the jerkwater Svengalis behind the Clinton campaign. From Wordnik.com. [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference
"Hey, this is New York, sergeant, not some jerkwater Ohio. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
"'I couldn't think of it, my dear madam; it's too easy; it's like pulling jerkwater passenger -- I like through freight.'. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
September 19, 2008 9:17 AM jerkwater said. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!] Reference
He'd flown some jerkwater airlines in his time. From Wordnik.com. [The Z Gates] Reference
An absolute jerkwater of a town. From Wordnik.com. [The Swamp] Reference
2 It is hardly a "jerkwater" institution. From Wordnik.com. ["If you don't pass universal health care by July of 2009... I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."] Reference
What a jerkwater!. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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