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Lady MacGyver

A woman who solves her problems with whatever resources available. She has a "can-do" attitude and looks outside the box where she finds infinite possibilities. She often surprises herself with the results of her efforts. Also a BIG fan of duct tape.
Father: So the contractor won't be available to fix the loose tiles in the shower for another 2 weeks!

Daughter: Don't worry, Dad! Lady MacGyver, here! I made a temporary patch with a piece of plastic and water proof duct tape.
by BobbiGee June 27, 2016
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MacGyver

v. 1. To use ingenuity to fix or remedy a problem using only the tools available at hand. 2. To jury-rig

n. Someone who can regularly cobble together solutions to problems using only the tools available at hand.
Your CD playa broke, huh? Gimme that string, a pencil, and a sock, and I'm a MacGyver it.

Man, I be a regular MacGyver when it comes to making bongs
by Eldezod June 17, 2004
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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...
by MacGuyvermannnn June 1, 2010
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McGuyver Smoker

is a very handy guy to have around especially when it comes to REEFER.
He can create a smoking device out of anything
Guy 1: Yo man we are out of papers.

mcguyver smoker: ok get me a toilet paper roll, a corckscrew, and some tin foil

Guy 1: we dont have a corkscrew

mcguyver: ok get me an avocado, an icepick, and my snorkel
by samsongetsmelifted August 13, 2009
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macgyver

A man who can make everything from anything.
Some unknown facts about MacGyver:

Fact: On the 1st day, God created MACGYVER. On the 2nd day, God created knives and paperclips. On the 3rd day.. MACGYVER created everything else.

Fact: MACGYVER can invent 1000 different things using a ball of yarn and a pair of sunglasses. 999 of these things can kill a man. The remaining thing can kill a planet.

Fact: MACGYVER invented genocide using only blankets and smallpox.

Fact: The only thing that MACGYVER cannot produce with a soda can and an extension cord... is mercy.

Fact: One time, MACGYVER built a time machine out of an old refrigerator and a pocketwatch, and used it to travel to the ancient paradise of Atlantis. However, while there, he went on a drunken bender with with a magnifying glass and a book of matches. This area is now known as the Sahara.

Fact: Chuck Norris is an android built by MACGYVER in an attempt to find a worthy opponent.

Fact: Some crazy people claim that MACGYVER was just a TV character, played by Richard Dean Anderson. In actuality, Richard Dean Anderson was played by MACGYVER, and the show was a documentary, the events of which REALLY HAPPENED.

And the final Fact: Necessity is the mother of invention but... MACGYVER is the father.
by Bob Cardealer Lewis December 31, 2007
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macgyvering

To tinker, using items not normally used for this purpose.
"I'm macgyvering, we'll see if this works."
by zoe1986 March 6, 2009
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macgyver

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.
by Kathryn January 18, 2004
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