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jerry-rig
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jer·ry-rig  (jr-rg)
tr.v. jer·ry-rigged, jer·ry-rig·ging, jer·ry-rigs
To jury-rig.

[Alteration (influenced by jerry-build) of jury-rig.]


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But after polling showed that this idea wasn't popular with voters, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and League of Women Voters of Los Angeles jerry-rigged an assortment of changes to the City's ethics laws solely so they could peddle a term limits extension as "reform.
In constructing her images, the artist builds sculptures out of ragged bits of fabric, wire, wood, and metal, then situates them so as to suggest jerry-rigged communication devices in a world that has devolved into a posttech Dark Age comparable to the one detailed in David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas (2004).
And 12/26 was a reminder that the planet itself is a jerry-rigged affair, likely to keep belching and lurching.
 
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