Jerry-build Definition
jĕrē-bĭld
jerry-build
verb
To build shoddily, flimsily, and cheaply.
American Heritage
To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
Wiktionary
To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
Wiktionary
To repair a structure in one of the above manners.
Wiktionary
Origin of Jerry-build
From dialectal jerry defective perhaps from the name Jerry
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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