Definition of "jackleg" []

• Lacking skill or training; incompetent. Used especially of lawyers or preachers. (adjective)
• Unscrupulous or dishonest. (adjective)
• Makeshift; temporary. (adjective)
• An unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker. (noun)
• A strikebreaker. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Huckabee is a jackleg preacher turned politician and doesn't like Romney because he's Mormon."
• "With stinging satire, Ms. Lamb unveils a host of eccentric characters that include a grandmother whose down-home observations often echo a Moms Mabley routine, and a jackleg preacher reminiscent of Reverend Ike."
• "Enid2s husband was supposed to be a Brightblade, not some outlander tricked up like a jackleg executioner."