Jerry-built in a sentence as an adjective

This would be more impressive if you didn't know that the original 'frozen pan' rigs were jerry-built from film SLRs.

In the OED, it has jerry-built dating to 1869 and defined as "Built unsubstantially of bad materials; built to sell, but not to last.

Jerry-built definitions

adjective

of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

See also: shoddy