Crossword clues for do-it-yourself
do-it-yourself
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
do-it-yourself \do-it-yourself\ adj. performed or made by an end-user who is without professional training in the relevant techniques; as, their house was a do-it-yourself project. Contrasted with factory-made and professional.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a modifier, attested by 1941. The expression is much older.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to do it yourself
WordNet
adj. done by yourself; "their house was a do-it-yourself project"; "he opened a do-it-yourself store"
Usage examples of "do-it-yourself".
Sensations accompanying do-it-yourself nasogastric tube removal unlikely to find place in catalog of experiences without which life is not complete.
It was her own do-it-yourself enchantment, a kind of self-hypnosis, substitute for God knew how many thousand dollars worth of psychotherapy.
He was a do-it-yourself electrician and had wired, or miswired, a heated towel rail.
It looks like, besides Aftercare, the only activities on Wednesdays at three were a do-it-yourself tax seminarthat ran from January to n-jid-April, and then the AA meeting which met in B-10, down in the basement every Wednesday at three until just last month, when they switched over to Mondays at six.
I bought a walnut stock blank, scope mounts, sling-swivels, a sling, a used four-power scope, some do-it-yourself bluing, and a jar of stock finish.
George Breze was a one-man conglomerate who operated his sprawling empire from a shack on Sandpit Road, surrounded by rental trucks, mini-storage buildings, a do-it-yourself car wash, and junk cars waiting to be cannibalized.
This had been a year ago, not long after I got my first clunker and had invested twenty dollars in renting one of Darnell's Do-It-Yourself Garage bays to try and replace the carburettor, an experiment that had ended in dismal failure.
Dinner arrives, a miniature do-it-yourself Chicken Cordon Bleu hobby kit, sort of a put-it together project to keep you busy.
He had not forgotten that it was his birthday, in fact he had spent the day debating with himself the advisability of ordering, from an outfit in California, a complete, prepackaged, do-it-yourself dual-band satellite dish, antenna, feed horn, down converter, receiver, and positioner, and was still debating this purchase, trying to determine how long he might be interested in all this hardware, should he decide to buy it for himself for his birthday.
Gash, reaching into the freezer compartment and moving things around, taking things out—a pair of steaks, a box of frozen peas, a do-it-yourself pizza, a carton of rum raisin—dropping them on the floor.
Gash, reaching into the freezer compartment and moving things around, taking things outa pair of steaks, a box of frozen peas, a do-it-yourself pizza, a carton of rum raisindropping them on the floor.
She could buy do-it-yourself hair coloring and dye her red hair brown, though not until after she had been to the bank.
During the last couple of years there have been several manuals circulating among the subversive underground: bomb cookbooks that make do-it-yourselfing sound easy.
I learned about potassium permanganate while researching do-it-yourself abortion methods at the public library.