Definitions for jerry-built

jerry-built jer·ry-built

Spelling: [jer-ee-bilt]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛr iˌbɪlt/

Jerry-Built is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in jerry-built (-beijlrrtuy).

Definitions for jerry-built

adjective

  1. built cheaply and flimsily.
  2. contrived or developed in a haphazard, unsubstantial fashion, as a project or organization.

verb (used with object)

  1. to build cheaply and flimsily.

Origin of jerry-built

1865-70; jerry (as in jerry-build) + built

Examples for jerry-built

As the comedian in the piece remarked—and it is the only phrase you carry away—Jericho must have been jerry-built.

The house was new but jerry-built, reeked of drains, and swarmed with vermin.

jerry-built shanties with rattletrap aircars grounded around them.

Why shouldn't creeds totter when they are jerry-built creeds?

I should say it was built on contract, and jerry-built at that.

A work of beauty which cannot stand an intimate examination is a poor and jerry-built thing.

It was, I perceive, a jerry-built scheme, run up at short notice.

The expression “jerry-built” is applied to houses built badly and of inferior materials, and run up by a speculative builder.

See the finest position in the neighbourhood occupied by a jerry-built Moorish nightmare?

From her way of saying it, you would have supposed it had been jerry-built last week.

Word Value for jerry-built
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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