English Dictionary

jackleg

adj

(US) Amateur, untrained; incompetent. / (US) Dishonest, unscrupulous. / (US) Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.

He is a jackleg mechanic who doesn't know what he's doing.

意味（1）

(US) Amateur, untrained; incompetent.

The next year I had a projecting kind of jack leg carpenter, from Hanover, living with me in the capacity of overseer […]

意味（2）

(US) Dishonest, unscrupulous.

The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an’ swear that he’s sufferin’ from spatulation o’ the medulla oblongata, housemaid’s knee, and the hives.

意味（3）

(US) Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.

The train is late […] . ¶ “Well, if I come to such a place as this I must expect a jackleg railroad […] .”