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jerkwater town
noun as in one-horse town
Example Sentences
To his dismay, the priestess sided with Tilantongo’s enemies and ordered 8-Deer, Tilantongo's champion, to exile himself a hundred miles away, in a jerkwater town on the Pacific called Tututepec.
But, no matter how things pan out, darned if I cain’t allus say truthful that she just about suits me–that ornery, little, jerkwater town!
He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town.
I never would have been anything more than a stock actress in some jerkwater town, as we say in the West, if the movies hadn’t become so popular.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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