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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To jury-rig.

Wiktionary

  1. v. common misspelling of jury-rig.

Etymologies

  1. Confusion of jury-rig and jerry-built. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration (influenced by jerry-build) of jury-rig. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • arby I'm always getting confused about this vs. jury-rig - Bartleby sez this is just a variant spelling, probably based on jerry-build. I thought jury-rig meant specifically fixing a jury, not a makeshift shoddy contraption. But people seem to use the two interchangeably to mean the latter. Oct 17, 2007

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