Usually means: Constructed cheaply and carelessly.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word jerry-built:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. jerry-built: Merriam-Webster
  2. jerry-built: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jerry-built, jerry-built: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jerry-built: Vocabulary.com
  5. jerry-built: Wordnik
  6. jerry-built: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. jerry-built: Wiktionary
  8. jerry-built: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jerry-built: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. jerry-built: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Jerry-built, jerry-built: Dictionary.com
  12. jerry-built: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Jerry-built: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Jerry-built: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. jerry-built: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. jerry-built: Rhymezone
  17. Jerry-built: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. jerry-built: FreeDictionary.org
  19. jerry-built: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. jerry-built: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jerry-built: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jerry-built: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jerry-built: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jerry-Built: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Built cheaply and shoddily.

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