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verb (MacGyvers?, MacGyvering?, MacGyvered?, MacGyvered?)
- To assemble, or cause to be repaired or completed, an object, device, machine, or project from items, (normally common, ordinary and mundane such as a rubber band or paper clip), not normally used for that purpose, where other's would assume one needs a manufactured part, as per the design. Especially: if the items are used in ways significantly different than their intended use.
- Our car broke down and we didn't have any tools but Jim MacGyvered? it with some toenail clippers and we were able to limp to the service station. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22to+macgyver+it%22&btnG=Search
Etymology: From a once popular American television program with the same name. See :w:MacGyver, MacGyver? in Wikipedia.
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