Verb (used with object) : to jury-rig stage lights using automobile headlights. ,We jury-rigged a fore-topmast after the storm had snapped ours off. From Dictionary.com.
And so, they're having to kind of jury-rig around this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2008] Reference
I can jury-rig a replacement while she loses her spin. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
'So we figured we could jury-rig a rack for welding out here. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones]
It is possible to jury-rig around this problem for a short time. From Wordnik.com. [Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine] Reference
The NASA folk had managed to jury-rig one to serve in the interim. From Wordnik.com. [Freedoms Challenge]
The other firm can jury-rig some means of extracting hydrogen from water. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
ROBERTS: Your tax dollars at work there with a little bit of a jury-rig this morning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2009] Reference
Kaylee is a young woman who seems to jury-rig the ship to do what she needs it to do. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
• Don't jury-rig equipment to create a longer ladder, such as splicing two short ladders. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the Day: Be safe using a ladder, especially if you're installing or adjusting a TV antenna] Reference
Some units are using panty hose to jury-rig added protection for intricate avionics systems. From Wordnik.com. [The Apache's Battle Test] Reference
As part of the event, the 20-somethings had to jury-rig their rickshaws for the competition. From Wordnik.com. [Pulitzer-winning historian William Goetzmann dies at 80] Reference
The gyro went first, we were in a meteor shower ... took us a long time to jury-rig the boards. From Wordnik.com. [Freedoms Challenge]
They take him, they -- OK, I ` m glad to see that you managed to jury-rig being with us tonight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference
Given any time at all, they might be able to jury-rig a primary, and that would be bad'very bad. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
We've got mighty little of our own stuff and it's hard to jury-rig what we need from their stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
The mess hall had no connection to the linguistic computer and there was no time to jury-rig one. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
In nautical terms, you need to come up with a "jury-rig," or "jerry-rig," as it is sometimes called. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Bishop: Four Keys to Success in 2011] Reference
And it was a black fellow who told me of the far more rankling version of the phrase “jury-rig”. From Wordnik.com. [More on That Cartoon] Reference
Buddy and his crew know how to jury-rig it themselves, and soon the cookie line is up and running again. From Wordnik.com. [Who Needs an MBA When We Have 'Dog the Bounty Hunter'?] Reference
With that out, the generator couldn't be restarted till the blast was restarted from a jury-rig exciter circuit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
We can jury-rig another rudder, but the ice has torn our hull bottom to splinters all along the length of the keel. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
An attempt has been made to jury-rig the phaser controls so that they could be triggered without conscious thought. From Wordnik.com. [Lawnmower Season] Reference
The pirates had managed to jury-rig a screen generator, and with it had cut the power-beams behind the invading forces. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
Federal courts will jury-rig a process whose every rule second-guesses our soldiers and intelligence agents in the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Supreme Court Goes to War] Reference
Brave Northerners hungry for information long ago figured out how to jury-rig short-wave radios to receive foreign broadcasts. From Wordnik.com. [Orchestrating Freedom] Reference
I did manage to get HU comments delivered to my email account with a jury-rig setup involving FeedDemon and the Mozilla email client. From Wordnik.com. [TCJ.com, 2 Months Later » Comics Worth Reading] Reference
Combat units had to jury-rig vehicles with scrap metal in order to get some extra degree of protection from improvised explosive devices. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Harry Reid: It Is Long Past Time to Change Course] Reference
She's helpless; we're not, for we've got a jury-rig under the bows. From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
AFter several minutes of trying to jury-rig the thing into place. From Wordnik.com. [Big Stupid Tommy] Reference
The engine was broken but some light maintenance and a jury-rig got it running. From Wordnik.com. [Travel Blog | Travel Journals, Diaries and Photos] Reference
Hrmph. If we want to jury-rig a solution, it's probably helpful to note that in the period. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com]
A harebrained, soak-the-taxpayers accounting jury-rig if there ever was one, in other words. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
MacGyver TV series, Lee Zlotoff, may be gearing up to jury-rig a lawsuit against the producers of the. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood.com - Recent News] Reference
Executive producer Dino De Laurentiis is hoping to jury-rig a Hollywood hit out of the much-spoofed television class. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton] Reference
I think we’re just about to jury-rig ourselves a secure circuit.”. From Wordnik.com. [Terror At Dawn]
"We had a good jury-rig under the bows, and we let it go to assist you. From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
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