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  • noun Plural form of jerry.

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Examples

  • I was thinking along the lines that the jerries were biting off more than they could chew, poking the soviets.

    Irritable Bear Returns – The Bleat. 2009

  • We walk upright into the bunker through one of the doors of twisted steel, throw in a hand grenade just for luck, and rush in on the ready to be greeted only by dead jerries strewn around inside 20-foot thick concrete walls like so many loaves of bread—concussion.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • We walk upright into the bunker through one of the doors of twisted steel, throw in a hand grenade just for luck, and rush in on the ready to be greeted only by dead jerries strewn around inside 20-foot thick concrete walls like so many loaves of bread—concussion.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • We walk upright into the bunker through one of the doors of twisted steel, throw in a hand grenade just for luck, and rush in on the ready to be greeted only by dead jerries strewn around inside 20-foot thick concrete walls like so many loaves of bread—concussion.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • We walk upright into the bunker through one of the doors of twisted steel, throw in a hand grenade just for luck, and rush in on the ready to be greeted only by dead jerries strewn around inside 20-foot thick concrete walls like so many loaves of bread—concussion.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • We then topped up all the jerries, now that we are back in

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • But bashing the frogs and jerries in the name of EU-expansionism must feel like an early Christmas present for him.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Yes we went across the globe and the first thing to eat was mcdonalds and Ben and jerries ice cream!

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • "We will fight jeering jerries on the pitches," proclaimed the Daily Star with a picture of England striker Wayne Rooney in a tin hat.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • We ended up in a strange ass town, mooching around eating ben and jerries and a huge loaf of bread, being stopped by the police and questioned a lil, and somehow at 3 in the morning we found someone's house to crash at.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

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