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jerry-rigged

jerry-rigged adjective: eggcorn of jury-rigged. Also the simple past and past participle of jerry-rig.

Adjective

jerry-rigged (comparative more jerry-rigged, superlative most jerry-rigged)

  1. 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

Also used as

jerry-rigged is also the simple past and past participle of jerry-rig.

Forms of jerry-rigged

comparativemore jerry-rigged
superlativemost jerry-rigged

Origin of jerry-rigged

From jerry-rig + -ed, a conflation of jury-rigged and jerry-built.

Questions about jerry-rigged

What does jerry-rigged mean?
Jerry-rigged means eggcorn of jury-rigged.
What part of speech is jerry-rigged?
Jerry-rigged is an adjective.

Words near jerry-rigged in the dictionary

  1. jerry-can
  2. jerry-lord
  3. jerry-lords
  4. jerry-mumble
  5. jerry-rig
  6. jerry-rigged
  7. jerry-rigging
  8. jerry-rigs
  9. jerry-shop
  10. jerry-shops
  11. jerry-sneak

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