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.

by JP November 7, 2003

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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.

by sak November 23, 2003

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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...

by MacGuyvermannnn June 1, 2010

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Mcgyverism

The art of making household items into deferent contraptions

Sable and Troy got an A in Mcgyverism class

by HaloElite May 25, 2010

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1. Of or relating to the show of the same name. Starring Richard Dean Anderson, aka Sexy Beast.

2. To fix or construct something using only the materials at hand, such as a paper clip and a drinking straw. Requires awesome sKILLz.

1. SpikeTV is awesome because they show four hours of Star Trek followed by one hour of McGyver every weekday.

2. I mcgyvered the window so it wouldn't leak anymore.

by lizzi May 20, 2005