jerry-build

[ jer-ee-bild ]

/ ˈdʒɛr iˌbɪld /

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verb (used with object), jer·ry-built, jer·ry-build·ing.

to build cheaply and flimsily.

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Origin of jerry-build

1880–85; back formation from jerry-builder.See jerry², build

OTHER WORDS FROM jerry-build

jerry-builder, noun

Words nearby jerry-build

Jeroboam, Jerold, Jerome, jerreed, jerry, jerry-build, jerry-built, jerry can, jersey, Jersey barrier, Jersey City

How to use jerry-build in a sentence

Those are saguaro cactuses…the big ones…birds make holes in them and build their nests inside.
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Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.
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“He could build studios and he understood technology,” Jackson told The Daily Beast.
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The narrator is suggesting that they build a snowman that looks like a minister.
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Regardless, few had been given any reason to believe they could build a life for themselves beyond the streets.
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They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
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Now is the time to build for the future, and to avoid paying too much attention to immediate profits.
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The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.
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Ki Pak's servants proceeded to build a fire in the centre of the yard and the cook made preparations for getting supper.
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To his astonishment, Lawrence recognized one of the guerrillas as Jerry Alcorn, his old time enemy.
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British Dictionary definitions for jerry-build

jerry-build

verb -builds, -building or -built

(tr) to build (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials

Derived forms of jerry-build

jerry-builder, noun

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