MacGyver now a verb

MacGyver is now a verb. And yes you can use it to describe improvised or inventive ways making use of whatever items are at hand.

MacGyver was an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and starring Richard Deen Anderson. 

This word along with 999 others made their way into Oxford Dictionaries online on Wednesday.

The new additions highlight the things people were talking about in the summer of 2015, Time.com reported.

“Beer o'clock” (time to drink beer), "manspreading" (sitting with legs wide apart on public transport), and “hangry” (angry for being hungry) were included in the dictionary.

New word Grexit, a term for referring to the possible exit of Greece from the European Union, points to how global our economy is becoming.

Oxford Dictionaries is the branch of the Oxford family that focuses on modern language, words that people are using now and how they're using them, which makes their barriers to entry different than the venerable, historical Oxford English Dictionary.

Their new words often arise from fresh technology and pop culture and might include Internet slang (like new entry pwnage) that would get laughed out of the OED's admittance office.

According to Oxford Dictionary's language monitoring service, hangry has seen its usage increase since 2012, with a spike in April 2014 connected to an American study about low glucose levels making people cross.

New words and phrases are added to the website once editors have enough independent evidence to be confident of their widespread currency in English.a