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jerkwater town en · NOUN

Etymology

See jerkwater.

Meanings

  1. (US) A small town with minimal facilities and conveniences.

Forms

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Hypernyms

backwater

Synonyms

dullsville · back o' Bourke · sticks · Bumfuck · north forty · the sticks · backcountry · Buttfuck · ends of the world · wide spot in the road · arse end of nowhere · Hicksville · bumfuck nowhere · provinces · back forty · bumfuck middle of nowhere · Ohio · one-horse town · Timbuktu · Egypt · Fictional places · Tuktoyaktuk · Anytown · Actual places · Iowa · jerk-water · Bumblefuck · tank town · Woop Woop · back of beyond · boondock · Nowhere · Isolated place · edge of the earth · Kansas · Podunk · jerkwater · East Jesus · Isolated town · bump in the road · Squedunk · BFE · out of the way · boondocks · ends of the earth · jerkwater town · hinterland · Podunk · boonies · beyond the black stump · off the beaten track · Whateverville · Outer Mongolia · wop-wops · backwoods · Minnesota · East Bumfuck · backwater · edge of the world · middle of nowhere · Nowheresville · one-horse town · Idaho

Translations (2)

pl partykularz (small town) · ru захолустный горо́дишко (small town)