What does it mean when someone says it is jerry rigged?

Answer by  resourceful22 (7)

The proper term is actually jury rigged. Jury rigging is what MacGuyver did on TV show a few years back. It means repairing something or creating something temporarily with whatever stuff you happen to have available at the moment (like making fishing gear out of a branch and some string with an open safety pin at the end).

Answer by  Clement (1453)

"Jerry rigged" is a conflation of "jerry built" and "jury rigged". Jerry built construction is a badly built construction, construction of an inferior quality. Jury rigged construction stresses the temporary character of a construction or the fact that it has been constructed from the means by the hand. As you see the meaning of both expressions is similar.