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'.
• Jerry Springer and his TV show are often referred to simply as Jerry
• Jerry Seinfeld and his TV show are often referred to simply as Jerry, and an episode of the show (Seinfeld) was a storyline where he had a pilot called "Jerry"
• A cartoon mouse in Tom and Jerry
• Jerry was a World War II-era nickname for Nazi Germany or its armed forces. See also Charlie and Ivan.
• * A Jerry can is a flat-walled metal fuel tank of an originally German design.^[link]
• 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 19th Century UK slang) and to "jerry-rigged" also known as "jury-rigged"

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