jerrybuild means to assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
verb
- To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.“It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]”
- To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
- To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.