RIG UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rig up mean? 

• RIG UP (verb)
  The verb RIG UP has 1 sense:

1. erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure

  Familiarity information: RIG UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIG UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Can he rig up a P.A. system?

Hypernyms (to "rig up" is one way to...):

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together (create by putting components or members together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The engineer, who occupied the adjoining room, dropped in to meet the new hand and helped Martin rig up an electric bulb, on an extension wire, so that it travelled along a stretched cord from over the table to the bed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)