Gerry

[ ger-ee ]

noun

1. El·bridge [el, -brij], 1744–1814, U.S. politician: vice president 1813–14. gerrymander ( def 1 ).
2. Also Gerri. a male or female given name.

Example Sentences

Gerry Wills, who organised the transportation of the cannabis and went on to spend six years in an American prison, said Marks' skill was bringing "misfits" together.

From BBC

Famed boxing promoter Don King labeled Gerry Cooney the great white hope in promoting Cooney’s fight with then-champ Larry Holmes.

From Salon

A major thread in the story implicates the very much still alive Gerry Adams, who became the leader of the Sinn Féin political party in 1983, as the man who ordered Jean McConville’s kidnapping as a high-ranking IRA leader.

From Salon

Like a nonfiction novel, Keefe’s book traces five decades of thorny history from the perspective of real-life characters, including the notorious Price sisters, Marian and Dolours, I.R.A. militants whose prison hunger strikes made front-page news in the 1970s, and Gerry Adams, the political leader who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland but has been accused of participating in atrocities committed during the height of the conflict.

From Los Angeles Times

Officially, the DUP has always maintained it never sat down with Sinn Féin until Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams met at Stormont in March 2007, shortly before the parties entered power-sharing.

From BBC