jerrybuild

verb

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

   transitive

   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 […]

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

3. To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.

Where it comes from

Blend of jerry + build; unknown origin; see jerry (possibly etymologically related).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry jerrybuild (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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