Definitions
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- verb To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
- verb To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
- verb To repair a structure in one of the above manners.
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Examples
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Or, maybe we were just incompatible and should have bitten the bullet a lot earlier instead of spending massive emotional capital trying to jerrybuild our lives together.
Mark Schwartz: Capital, Marriage and Divorce Mark Schwartz 2010
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Or, maybe we were just incompatible and should have bitten the bullet a lot earlier instead of spending massive emotional capital trying to jerrybuild our lives together.
Mark Schwartz: Capital, Marriage and Divorce Mark Schwartz 2010
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