MacGayver 

verb. to utilize accessible but limited resources around
ones(gay)self to create something fabulous.

noun. someone who is one part Martha Stewart, one part Bob Villa, and one part MacGuyver that is able to utilize their talent and skill to create something fabulous out of limited but accessible resources.

Todd whipped into MacGayver mode and grabbed three camping lanterns, a couple of bungee cords, chiffon, and some zip ties to create not only needed but wonderful lighting over the picnic table at our campsite.

MacGayver by firebird71 July 22, 2009

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

MacGyverbate 

Pleasuring oneself using random household objects not typically incorporated in standard masturbation

The batteries in my fleshlight were dead, and I was fresh out of Jergens, so I busted open a can of biscuits and MacGyverbated.

MacGyverbate by Prestoned October 3, 2012

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

McGyver 

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

macgyvering 

To tinker, using items not normally used for this purpose.

"I'm macgyvering, we'll see if this works."

macgyvering by zoe1986 March 6, 2009