Legal Opinion
Marla Dixon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2018No. 17-13780PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:
*1259 The fictional Angus MacGyver's defining talent is his ability to cobble together a solution when the precise tools he needs to solve a problem are not available. As "Mac" has explained, "If you don't have the right equipment for the job, you just have to make it yourself." MacGyver: Out in the Cold (ABC television broadcast Feb. 16, 1987). So synonymous with improvising has the name "MacGyver" become that the Oxford Dictionaries added the name to their collection as a verb meaning to "[m]ake or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of…
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