Meanings
adjectivejerry-rigged (comparative more jerry-rigged, superlative most jerry-rigged)
comparative more jerry-rigged · superlative most jerry-rigged
- Eggcorn of jury-rigged.
And conflicts inside Trump’s awkward, jerry-rigged coalition certainly exist, most recently reaching a boiling point over tariffs.
2025 April 13, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, “The rise of end times fascism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of jerry-rig
Origin
From jerry-rig + -ed, a conflation of jury-rigged and jerry-built.
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