Definitions for Jerry

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Jerry jer·ry

Spelling: [jer-ee]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛr i/

Jerry is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Jerry (ejrry).

Definitions for Jerry

noun

1. a chamber pot.
2. a male given name, form of Gerald, Gerard, Jeremiah, and Jerome.
3. a female given name, form of Geraldine.
4. a German, especially a German soldier.
5. Germans collectively.
6. Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
7. Jerome Alan ("Jerry") born 1938, U.S. basketball player, coach, and executive.
8. Mae, 1892?–1980, U.S. actress.
9. Nathanael (Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein) 1902?–40, U.S. novelist.
10. Paul, born 1930, U.S. poet, essayist, and novelist, born in England.
11. Dame Rebecca (Cicily Isabel Fairfield Andrews) 1892–1983, English novelist, journalist, and critic, born in Ireland.
12. Charles Brockden [brok-duh n] /ˈbrɒk dən/ (Show IPA), 1771–1810, U.S. novelist.
13. Clifford ("Brownie") 1930–56, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
14. Edmund Gerald, Jr ("Jerry") born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.
15. Herbert Charles, 1912–2004, U.S. chemist, born in England: Nobel Prize 1979.
16. James Nathaniel ("Jimmy") born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.
17. John ("Old Brown of Osawatomie") 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
18. Margaret Wise, 1910–52, U.S. author noted for early-childhood books.
19. Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.
20. Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist.
21. Jerome John ("Jerry") 1942–95, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

adjective

1. of inferior materials or workmanship.

Origin of Jerry

First recorded in 1875-80; short for jerry-built

Examples for Jerry

“[Amazon] should be showcasing ‘Tom and jerry’ among classic movies in a way that gives them cultural context,” he said.

Sen. jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, was among the first politicians to call for an Ebola czar.

Former Louisville mayor and new White House aide jerry Abramson could be the man who brings Obama and Mitch McConnell together.

jerry has been my bodyguard on Sunday nights for a long time past and I am used to him.

There is, for example, the Seinfeld episode where jerry, feeling flush with cash, buys his parents a Caddy.

Mitchell has close ties with Sen. jerry Tillman, the lawmaker who sponsored the bill.

This from jerry Tompkins; you have probably no idea how hungry he was at that moment.

A carriage with post-horses was ready at the Bank door, and jerry was booted and equipped.

It had seen its best days, jerry thought, and so had he, for that matter.

jerry, you honest tradesman, it wouldn't suit your line of business!