n
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
n
A job that is completed quickly and carelessly, possibly with one's mind on other things, or without using the correct tools.
n
A job that has been botched.
v
(informal, transitive) To ruin, mess up.
adj
Made or repaired in a clumsy or incompetent manner.
adj
Botched utterly; failed; ruined.
n
Inferior and shoddy work.
adj
(chiefly clothing) Designed to reduce bouncing.
adj
Incompetently performed; ruined through incompetent action; botched up.
adj
In the habit of making errors.
n
a task that was completed as quickly as possible at the expense of quality and attention to detail
adj
(US) Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.
adj
Alternative spelling of jerrybuilt [Shoddily built; ill-constructed.]
n
Cheap, shoddy construction work.
v
(transitive) To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.
adj
Shoddily built; ill-constructed.
n
The practice of jerry-building.
n
Something constructed shoddily or hastily.
n
(idiomatic, by extension) An uncontrolled or unpredictable person who causes damage to their own team, faction, political party, etc.
adj
(informal) Inferior; shoddy.
n
(idiomatic) Too bad (for you); the outcome one desires is not likely to evolve.
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