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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: MacGyver
Description: 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 w...