Jerry
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Jerry is...
- A male first name.
- A nickname for males and females. Most commonly used as a diminutive form of male names Gerald, Gerard, Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerome and female name Geraldine. (When used for names beginning with 'G', the nickname is sometimes spelled 'Gerry'.)
- Ben & Jerry's ice cream
- Jerry Garcia
- Jerry Springer
- Jerry Seinfeld
- A cartoon mouse in Tom and Jerry
- During wartime, 1939–1945, British nickname for a German
- A chamber pot (19th century slang). (Similar to the slang term "john" for flush toilet, or from "jeroboam", an oversized bowl or bottle.)
- Possibly connected to "jerry-built" (origin unknown) and to "jerry-rigged" (better "jury-rigged").
- A Jerry can (also "jerrican", etc.) is a flat-walled metal fuel tank of an originally German design.[1] (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=jerrycan&x=0&y=0)