Of an inhabited place, small, isolated, backward.(adjective)
Railroads with low traffic.(adjective)
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Use "jerk-water" in a sentence
"But we do need it at the Federal level, because these jerk-water States will refuse to budge without it ..."
"I vote for an even playing field for players playing every one else's format and sound files, that I manage not some jerk-water streaming lawyer trying to pump up market share."
"He recalled shudderingly brother engineers whose wives dragged about with them, living on the edge of construction camps under canvas in summer, in rough-boarded, tar-papered shacks in the winter; or perhaps in half-furnished cottages in some nearby jerk-water town."