Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jerry n.2

[tom and jerry n.1 (1)]

(US) a spree.

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[US]W. Otter Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 112: The boss carpenter was awake when we entered the room; he asked us WHAT’S BROKE, said he. I told him we were on a sort of a Jerry, and wished to get a bed for that night if we could.

In phrases

jerry-wag (n.)

a tipsy individual, out on a spree; thus a jerry-wag shop, a coffee stall, much frequented by such people.

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[UK]‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 104: Jerry-wags — half-drunken, half-foolish fellows, mostly bumpkins, newly town-rigg’d, seeking for a spree. ‘Jerry-wag shops’ — coffee shops, the resort of such wags.
[UK]Annals of Sporting 1 Jan. 54: Two Hoxton Jerry-wags next entered the arena [...] Red-face Duffy, who nightly pays his respects to the Gloucester-street Britannia, and White-face Golder, brother of the Greenman in the same Jerry-wag district.