jerry-rig

verb

Etymology

Conflation of jury-rig and jerry-built.

Definitions

  1. Eggcorn of jury-rig.

    • Sherry, found the distributor. Two more parts and I can jerry-rig the detonator for that gate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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