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Jerry-built

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Adjective

1. jerry-built, shoddy

of inferior workmanship and materials

Example Sentences:
'mean little jerry-built houses'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jerry-built

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adjective
(of houses, flats, etc) built badly using cheap materials
The jerry-built houses had been neglected.
jerry-built equipment
The place is a bit jerry-built.

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Jerry-built

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adjective
built poorly, of cheap materials

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jerry-built

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tr.v. jer·ry-built (-bĭlt′), jer·ry-build·ing, jer·ry-builds
To build shoddily, flimsily, and cheaply. See Usage Note at jury-rig.

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