Jerkwater

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(/ˈdʒɚk.wɑ.tɚ/)
Noun

1. Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.

BOBBY
“How’d it go?”

MAX
“I shook hands with her.”

BOBBY
“Big deal.”

MAX
“And I gave her my phone number.”

BOBBY
“Buchan said he’d have already banged her by now.”

MAX
“He said that?”

Max looks across he yard at MAGNUS BUCHAN, the burly foreign exchange student from Scotland. He is seventeen. He has a straw in his mouth and he shoots a little blowdart at a little kid’s neck.

MAX
“That’s a really crude thing to say. That’s Dirk’s mother.”

BOBBY
“But I thought that’s why you picked Dirk as your chapel partner.”

MAX
(looks at Bobby, pause)
“What are you, a lawyer? All I’m saying is that gorilla is a guest at our school for the year, so respect our women the same way we would in his jerkwater country.”

From the post: English vocabulary words from the movie script “Rushmore”
Source: Rushmore Script at IMSDb. (imsdb.com)