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- The phrase "jerry-built" has a separate origin and implies shoddy workmanship not necessarily of a temporary nature.
- To "MacGyver" something is to rig up something in a hurry using materials at hand, from the title character of the U.S. television show of the same name, who specialised in such improvisation stunts.
- "Nigger-rig" is based on the racial slur "nigger". The term is considered offensive and vulgar. The phrase "ghetto rigging" may have similar origin. It can also be referred to as "afro-engineering".
- The Finnish language uses term itäkätevyys (Eastern handiness). It originates to era of Cold War, when the Eastern Bloc lacked on many commodities the Western world had and were always short on supplies, and describes the inventiveness of the Eastern Europeans to overcome those handicaps with improvisation and use of unconventional materials.
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