jury-rigged
- s done or made using whatever is available
the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear
- Instead, the printer has been jury-rigged to handle something much more extraordinary than ink it now sprays tiny living cells into the three-dimensional forms of human organs.
- But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.
- American troops in Iraq have become masters of improvisation, like bolting jury-rigged armor to humvees to shield themselves from sniper fire and shrapnel.