Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of nigger-rig
adjectivenigger-rigged (comparative more nigger-rigged, superlative most nigger-rigged)
comparative more nigger-rigged · superlative most nigger-rigged
- Southern USoffensiveSynonym of jury-rigged.
In Louisiana and elsewhere, some folks still use the term “nigger-rigged” as a substitute for “jury-rigged,” meaning makeshift, put together or repaired sloppily and hastily and, hopefully, temporarily,
1998, David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America, page 279Synonyms: jury-rigged
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of jury-rigged.
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