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nigger-rigged en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (Southern-US, offensive) Synonym of jury-rigged.
    • In Louisiana and elsewhere, some folks still use the term “nigger-rigged” as a substitute for “jury-rigged,” meaning makeshift, put together or repaired sloppily and hastily and, hopefully, temporarily, 1998, David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America, page 279:

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Synonyms

jury-rigged

nigger-rigged en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of nigger-rig
    form of nigger-rig