
Corrections, Clarifications, and Grave Transgressions
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The History of Jerk Water in the Online Dictionary
Jerk water towns are trains that stop at little towns to cool their engines with water. The derogatory use of jerk water for things unimportant or trivial reflects the fact that these jerk water trains typically ran on lines connecting small, middle of nowhere towns. A woman's underwear that sits low on the hips is also called hipster. It's a rather technical term, right? The rise is the distance between the waist and the crotch of a pair of pants. Maybe we can just rename this section meacopa. That works.
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