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MacGyverisms

MacGyverisms is the plural of MacGyverism.

Meaning of MacGyverism

Noun

MacGyverism (countable and uncountable, plural MacGyverisms)

  1. An ingeniously improvised solution to a problem.
    • Anyone can learn real-life MacGyverisms using everyday items — you just have to be a little sneaky.2005, Mark Frauenfelder, Make: Technology on Your Time, volume 4, page 152

Questions about MacGyverisms

What is MacGyverisms the plural of?
MacGyverisms is the plural of MacGyverism.

Words near MacGyverisms in the dictionary

  1. MacGuffins
  2. macgyver
  3. macgyvered
  4. MacGyvering
  5. MacGyverism
  6. MacGyverisms
  7. MacGyvers
  8. Mach
  9. Mach angle
  10. Mach angles
  11. Mach band

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MacGyverisms (page history and authors); MacGyverism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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