lash up

See also: lashup and lash-up

English

Verb

lash up (third-person singular simple present lashes up, present participle lashing up, simple past and past participle lashed up)

1. (transitive, informal) To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; […]

Synonyms

• jury-rig

Derived terms

• lash-up (noun)
• lashup (noun)

Anagrams

• sulpha, sulpha-