To tinker, using items not normally used for this purpose.
"I'm macgyvering, we'll see if this works."
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verb, to cobble together a working piece of machinery or electronics from spare parts and duct tape using only your wits, folksy engineering knowledge (garnered from the scouts or your grandpa), and your swiss army knife
derived from the TV show in which the main character, MacGyver, did this every week in order to save the world and get the girl
I dropped by cd player on the concrete and it broke, so I had to macgyver it. It ain't pretty but it works.
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v. To use one or more objects for an unintended and often creative purpose. Derived from canceled television show where a character named MacGyver who often performed stunts in such a manner.
A safety pin and a sock can easily be MacGyvered into a headband.
"When you take something and you make it something that it shoulden't be but it almost works perfect"-Draco
Macgyvering is when you take something and make it something it shoulden't be but it almost works perfect
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to fix/make something with everyday objects and ingenuity. from the star of the show "MacGyver" who's character made/fixed stuff with ordinary stuff
"macgyver made a spark plug out of a bent nail, in one episode"
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a guy who can build a bomb out of a rubber band, a popsicle, and a straw.
Macgyver saved us with just a screw, a piece of string, and a fortune cookie!!
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Do something which seems impossible to do.
I MacGyvered togeather a rocket ship from this box of matches and a musk ox!
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