jerry-built
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iˌbɪlt adjective
1.
built cheaply and flimsily.
2.
contrived or developed in a haphazard, unsubstantial fashion, as a project or organization.
Synonyms
1. ramshackle, rickety, shoddy, slipshod.
1. ramshackle, rickety, shoddy, slipshod.
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World English Dictionary
| jerry-build | |
| —vb , -builds, -building, -built | |
| (tr) to build (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials | |
| 'jerry-builder | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
jerry-built
1869, Eng. dial. jerry "bad, defective," a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry (a popular form of Jeremy), or from naut. slang jury "temporary," which came to be used of all sorts of makeshift and inferior objects (see jury (adj.)).
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
For all of the time and money that went into it, it's jerry-built, a ship that slides straight to the bottom at its christening.
But there's a jerry-built climax and a prolonged, tiresome post-climax.
The tenants on the upper floors jerry-built kitchens, gardens, even bathrooms on the rooftops.
It drives the specious, the jerry-built the actively hurtful from the market.
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