jerry

IPA: dʒˈɛri

Root Word: Jerry

A diminutive of the male given names Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerome, Jared, Jermaine, Jerrold, Gerald, Gerard, or similar male given names.
A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Jerilyn.
An unincorporated community in Asotin County, Washington, United States; named for early rancher Jerry McGuire.
(UK, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people.
(Britain, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.
(Britain, slang) A chamber pot.
Alternative letter-case form of jerry: a chamber pot [(Britain, slang) A chamber pot.]
(ethnic slur) Alternative letter-case form of Jerry: a German. [A diminutive of the male given names Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerome, Jared, Jermaine, Jerrold, Gerald, Gerard, or similar male given names.]

Examples of "jerry" in Sentences

OMG they are calling jerry deli that place is great.
He was shabbily dressed in a suit of greenish-black and wore what we used to call a jerry hat with a high crown.
This bidder - "jerry" - defaulted on over $13,000 of domain purchases, and was still allowed to bid in future auctions.
He and one of our guards then have to heave gallons of water in jerry cans up to the roof of our bathroom to fill the water tank.
I’d still be thinking the fuel is in jerry cans, so if you hit an obstacle that “must be portaged”, you can offload a bit of weight.
Check out Gerry Studds too, elected 6 times after they found out what he did, I'd say it but cnn would censor me then, google the name jerry studds.
the term jerry rigged's been addressed, but as to paddy wagon, somehow most people don't realize it refers to irish people, I only know cuz I live in Boston with tons of irish folk.
Regardless of the origins of the terms jerry-built and jury-rigged, the fact of the matter is that the term jerry-rigged was used by American troops to describe the shoddy state of German equipment in the last years of the war.