Ghetto/nigger-rig

[Dave Wilton]

DARE (also cited by HDAS) has "nigger-rig" from at least 1965.


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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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Subject: Re: Ghetto/nigger-rig

>Anyone familiar with "nigger-rig"? As in hacking something together
>to make it sort of, kinda, just barely work?

Yes.  See also:  jerry-rig, jury-rig, Afro-engineer

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