MacGyver is a verb that means to make or repair an object in an improvised or inventive way. 

Our word of the day is derived from a popular television show of the 1980s whose titular star was skilled at creating weaponry or assorted items from everyday items. It’s recently become a verb. Here’s an example of it in use:

On our canoe trip, we found ourselves without a way to signal to the other campers that dinner was ready. So we had to MacGyver a dinner bell out of an old hub cap we found half buried in the dirt. If it weren’t for that ability to improvise, I get the feeling those guys would still be waiting for dinner.