A fork of Rural Dictionary
Poor-quality, inferior craftsmanship or construction work that reflects slovenliness, inattention to detail, incompetence and poor training. Taking shortcuts that result in shoddy, unattractive buildings, furniture, facilities, etc., and may also jeopardize health and safety due to failure to observe codes and norms.
"Look at all this nigger-rigging. They hung the doors upside down, for God's sake!" "It's just nigger-rigging if you don't measure at least twice." "Whichever nigger-rigger put this sink in didn't bother to anchor it, he just glued it to the sheetrock." "Of course the toilet stops up a lot. What do expect, what with all the nigger-rigging around here?" "If you don't sand and prime it first, it'll obviously look like nigger-rigging."
To fix something regardless of how it looks and ther amount of time it lasts. Using any materials that are available to you in a creative way to make something work.
Using rubber bands to hold your steering wheel in place, because you lost the bolts that are supposed to hold it. Using pizza boxes for blocking the wind from your windows. using duck tap to hold shit to your car. use a coat hanger to hold the mufler on your car. its like being a ghetto macgeiver. using home theater speakers for your car system. rigging your protable cd player to your tape deck and saying you have a dope system. or using the portable cd player with the tape player cause the cd player is broken. using a 22 bullet as a fuse cause your headlights went out. using surrand wrap and a rubber band or a baggy as a condom. using duck tape for waxing. using coca cola to eat the rust so you can bust the bults off the wheels. using the dushing fluid bottles as a squirt gun.
to rig something up half assed so that it works well enough, but doesn't work the way it is supposed to.
I had to nigger rig up my cd player in my car.
To put something together in a very poor manner
When Ben's car made funny noises he said "they diddled my muffler" but when his car fell apart Tony said "They just nigger rigged it"
a less effective method of repairing something that has been broken or damaged which usually will end up broken again.a more derogatory way of saying african american engineering
my dog ate my wire to my tv so i had to nigger-rig it because i didnt want to miss the superbowl.
To temporarily fix a mechanized object (usually an old car) using either a coat hanger or duct tape.
"Dude, my muffler broke off and it was all draggin on the ground - so I nigger rigged it with a coat hanger."
Something improperly fixed, often mechanical or electronic. It is a derogatory term derived from "jerry-rigged" which came into use from the confusion of "jury-rigged," a nautical term for a makeshift replacement of rig that has been damaged or lost overboard, and "Gerry-built," which referred to the low quality of German manufactures in the latter part of the 19th century. Also known euphemistically as "Afro-Engineering" or "Colored Engineering"
all black people in the world, no matter where from, have always nigger-rigged their cars