Definition of "jury-rig" []

To rig or assemble for temporary emergency use; improvise: The survivors of the wreck jury-rigged some fishing gear. (verb-transitive)

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.

Use "jury-rig" in a sentence

"It was nice to be able to be generous with time, and not have to be rushing to jury-rig things."
"Buddy and his crew know how to jury-rig it themselves, and soon the cookie line is up and running again."
"I did manage to get HU comments delivered to my email account with a jury-rig setup involving FeedDemon and the Mozilla email client."

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