jerrybuild

Verb

jerrybuild (third-person singular simple present jerrybuilds, present participle jerrybuilding, simple past and past participle jerrybuilt)

1. (transitive) 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 […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 154–5
   • If we look at some of the stories of R. D. Laing's patients in The Politics of Experience it looks as if schizophrenia jerrybuilds a shaky structure of passion and freedom which depends for existence on negation of control and conscious scruple.1968, Barbara Hardy, chapter 2, in Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination, London: Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 49
2. To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
3. To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.