jury-rig
verb
ju·ry-rig
ˈju̇r-ē-ˌrig 
-ˈrig,
ˈjər-
jury-rigged; jury-rigging; jury-rigs
: to erect, construct, or arrange in a makeshift fashion
Examples of jury-rig in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
But Ukraine’s military engineers have already shown surprising skill in jury-rigging older weapons systems with more modern firepower.
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Lara Jakes, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Amid those punishing strikes, Ukraine scrambled to stay ahead of mounting damage, with repair crews working around the clock and under fire, desperately jury-rigging old equipment and rationing precious power.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Despite the extreme heat, butchers laid out raw meat on the hoods of their cars, whacking away flies with branches or fly swatters jury-rigged with plastic bags.
—Valerie Hopkins Emile Ducke, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
Observers got a sneak peek of this tactic in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan recently used 1940s-era An-2 biplanes that were jury-rigged to operate remotely.
—Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2020
The big gun is jury-rigged on the back of a flatbed truck.
—James Levinson, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
Taylor plays Inez, a young Harlem fast talker who decides to jury-rig a family by any means necessary.
—Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
This wasn’t new—the Islamic State had also used drones to drop grenades in Iraq—but Ukraine started doing this on a professional, unprecedented scale, says Zwijnenburg, moving from jury-rigging devices to drop hand grenades to 3D-printing parts that turn ordinary commercial drones into weapons.
—WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
These small drones are most useful for acquiring targets for artillery strikes, but can also be jury-rigged to carry grenades or mortar shells, which can be dropped with startling precision.
—Sebastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
Lara Jakes, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Amid those punishing strikes, Ukraine scrambled to stay ahead of mounting damage, with repair crews working around the clock and under fire, desperately jury-rigging old equipment and rationing precious power.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Despite the extreme heat, butchers laid out raw meat on the hoods of their cars, whacking away flies with branches or fly swatters jury-rigged with plastic bags.
—Valerie Hopkins Emile Ducke, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
Observers got a sneak peek of this tactic in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan recently used 1940s-era An-2 biplanes that were jury-rigged to operate remotely.
—Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2020
The big gun is jury-rigged on the back of a flatbed truck.
—James Levinson, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
Taylor plays Inez, a young Harlem fast talker who decides to jury-rig a family by any means necessary.
—Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
This wasn’t new—the Islamic State had also used drones to drop grenades in Iraq—but Ukraine started doing this on a professional, unprecedented scale, says Zwijnenburg, moving from jury-rigging devices to drop hand grenades to 3D-printing parts that turn ordinary commercial drones into weapons.
—WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
These small drones are most useful for acquiring targets for artillery strikes, but can also be jury-rigged to carry grenades or mortar shells, which can be dropped with startling precision.
—Sebastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
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First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined above
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“Jury-rig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jury-rig. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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