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"

Gerry-Rig

To fix something on the fly with good craftsmanship

Gerry Gerry-Rigged the exhaust on my Rav 4.

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.