Yet something much more powerful than a jerry-rigged phone system was coming.

So this is a system that has been jerry-rigged to deal with the crazy people.

The bomb was the most diabolically jerry-rigged device he had ever seen put together.

Plenty of those systems are jerry-rigged right now," Perry said tentatively. "

The Jets were playing with a jerry-rigged defense.

It's a more compact version of the jerry-rigged deck in Case's old townhouse.

Obamacare was jerry-rigged in a country where single-payer health care is not an option.

A fire engine was parked nearby and sprinklers were jerry-rigged to roofs.

Today, 2.7 million people live in this sprawling, jerry-rigged settlement just east of Mexico City.

You could walk down almost any street and see jerry-rigged telephone wires draped across the street.

"With a jerry-rigged recipe he got from a friend, Shine figured out the rest through trial and error," according to the organization.

Only the jerry-rigged solution formulated by the General Assembly has gone away."

A jerry-rigged arrangement like that sounds to me like a move of real desperation."

Colin was staring at his jerry-rigged monitoring screen.

She still had her doubts about jerry-rigged transporters.

The Frees had contacted the negotiators through a phone system that they had jerry-rigged.

Then he screwed on the cover plate and the two boys mounted the rocket in a jerry-rigged launching rack.

In those places where power surges had burned out equipment, replacements were jerry-rigged to handle the load.

There was always the chance that something of his jerry-rigged shielding would slip, should the body become more interested than it already was.

During the war in Iraq the military realized that it couldn't protect troops from a low-tech, but potent threat: jerry-rigged road side bombs.

And most of it - the electricity supply, for example - is a jerry-rigged solution for the moment, not permanent repair.

They were old and jerry-rigged and ran on batteries that were solar-charged.

A lot of it had obviously seen hard use before passing into Trips's hands, some was jerry-rigged, but it all looked serviceable.

Whenever this jerry-rigged enterprise blurred the lines between “Curb” and “Seinfeld,” things could get dicey.