Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US campus) to do something mechanically very clever.

1992		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 7: pull a MacGyver – do something mechanically clever: ‘Dad pulled a MacGyver and used paper clips to fix the clutch.’.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 91: The 1992 expression pull a MacGuyver [...] alludes to the ability of Special Agent MacGuyver to use his brains and manual dexterity to get himelf out of life-threatening situations.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 28: When Aunty Flo arrives with homemade jam during Period 5 in Year 9 , I decide to MacGyver it [...] But this is a trap for young players.