jerrybuild

Definitions

1. 1

   To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or…

   To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.

   • It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]
   • Evolution, for example, isn't rational—and it jerry-builds our bodies.
2. 2

   To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.

3. 3

   To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.

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