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adj. to be creative in problem solving using household items. (Based of the 1980's TV series Maguyver)
"Dude, I Maguyvered it out of gum and tape and it totally worked."
maguyver by whiterose August 30, 2008

McGyver style 

When you make something into something else that it wasn't originally used for.
Damn, you made that can into a pipe, McGyver style!
McGyver style by Korea May 13, 2005

McGuyver 

To achieve a goal through the ingenious combination of common household items, in the spirit of Richard Dean Anderson's character McGuyver, from the television series of the same name.
'I McGuyvered a bong out of a coke can and a pen'
McGuyver by analihilator November 20, 2003

MacGuyver 

noun - Great TV show which taught the average person how to avoid a crisis using everyday household items.

verb - to use the limited resources around oneself to get out of an impossible situation.
n. - yes, i WAS locked in the meat locker, but i learned how to get out on MacGuyver.

v. - so there i was, tied to chair in the middle of a burning room. luckily, i was able to MacGuyver my way out with some chewing gum, a fedora hat, the rubik's cube, and a can of Spaghetti-O's.
MacGuyver by JP November 7, 2003
v. To use an item for a purpose of which it was not designed for.
She mcgyvered her lighter to hit the nails in.
McGyver by sak November 23, 2003

MacGuyver 

To improvise and make things with whatever mis-match material is at hand. This is a name made into a verb. MacGuyver was a television show where the main character (MacGuyver) made things to get out of sticky situations.
Bob: Hey Ted what's up?

Ted: Oh nothing much Bob, just MacGuyvering a nuclear reactor with these lemons and those paper clips, and that D-Cell battery.

Bob: Shit...
MacGuyver by MacGuyvermannnn June 1, 2010