jury rigged

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  • The filmmakers were shooting their moving target from an adult-size tricycle jury-rigged for the occasion.

    Knowing Bill Cunningham | Philip Gefter | March 22, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • That is why the Geithner plan is so complex and jury-rigged, to avoid the need for public requests for more money for banks.

    Does Obama Have a Plan B? | Adam S. Posen | March 29, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • "I wouldn't call our friends vassals, or say the system was jury-rigged," Flannery objected.

    Victory | Lester del Rey
  • She lifts high enough to show the stump of the foremast with head-sails jury rigged.

    Blackbeard: Buccaneer | Ralph D. Paine
  • Perry grinned at the jury-rigged cooler and rummaged around in its mouth for a while.

    Makers | Cory Doctorow
  • The Agamemnon had been jury-rigged for the service, her heavy masts and rigging removed, and lighter ropes and spars substituted.

    The Atlantic Telegraph | William Howard Russell
  • This was no occasion calling for remarkable ingenuity to make some sort of jury-rigged drive.

    Talents, Incorporated | William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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