Sentence:  Workers scrambled to slap it all together on nothing but a <WSD>lick and a promise</WSD>—unlike the pristine whiteness of the court, the haphazard shacks ahead clashed in color and stripe, some tall, some short, each roof at an awkward angle to the other. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The hasty or incomplete performance of a task.