jerry-build
verb (used with object)
to build cheaply and flimsily.
jerry-builder
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a word derived from
jerry-build.
Example Sentences
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"Repeatedly" suggests that the jerry-builder was a hard nut to crack then as now.
From The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Happy are they if they can find a piece of land marked for sale, where the jerry-builder has not yet commenced a suburban slum.
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
The house was not old, but it had been run up by a jerry-builder and its constitution had no stamina whatever.
From The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
I have not made speculative purchases of land, I am not booming a generous jerry-builder.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
It was in the days when every jerry-builder and parish sewer contractor, and big linen-draper too, thought he was a railway and dock contractor.
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman
