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gerry-rig

Another way to spell jerry-rig THe act temporally and shoddy fixing an object. A rude reference to the German engineering in WWII.

"He gerry-rigged the door to his room, so he could open it from his seat until he got the spring replaced"

by Franisco Franco December 08, 2007

gerry-rigging

Redrawing a voting district map to ensure the party in power gets to stay in power by selecting voters, making the elections effectively rigged.

There were too many opposition party member in the state legislature, so the majority party started gerry-rigging s the nearby districts to get their party voters as a majority soon after the census.

by davezawislak June 18, 2016