Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Jerry adj.

German.

1917		F. Dunham diary 10 July Long Carry (1970) 64: Our company was accommodated in two Jerry concrete dugouts.
1928		(con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 That little devil of a lieutenant had tracked up a whole Jerry gun-post.
1937		J. Archibald ‘Crash on Delivery’ in Flying Aces Nov. 🌐 A couple of Yankee doughs [...] found a cache of Jerry marks in a deserted abri.
1944		H. Brown Walk in Sun 23: ‘That’s a Jerry gun,’ Sergrant Hoskins said.
1953		P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 62: Look out for Jerry fighters!
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 135: This Jerry weed’s not bad.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 13: His loony Jerryhelmet cut looked more Luke Skywalker than ever.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 32: [G]erry officers rather than froggy homenians.