jackleg
unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician.
unscrupulous or without the accepted standards of one's profession: a jackleg lawyer.
makeshift; temporary.
an unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker or practitioner.
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How to use jackleg in a sentence
I flagged him back a piece and told him the jackleg was there.
Yellowstone Nights | Herbert QuickOut there in the sunshine the jackleg looked the part, so I wondered how we come to be faked by him.
Yellowstone Nights | Herbert QuickI reports an' asks instructions as to the best way of disposin' of Mr. jackleg's remains.
Yellowstone Nights | Herbert QuickThis was so at jackleg, but it gave a long vista of Main Street from the heart of the town to its outlying suburbs.
Frances of the Ranges | Amy Bell MarloweThis train that was stopping to cast loose the special car at jackleg was the last to stop at that station at night.
Frances of the Ranges | Amy Bell Marlowe
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