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tinker up

tinker up verb: to repair by tinkering.

Verb

tinker up (third-person singular simple present tinkers up, present participle tinkering up, simple past and past participle tinkered up)

  1. (transitive) To repair by tinkering

Forms of tinker up

third-person singular presenttinkers up
present participletinkering up
past participletinkered up
pasttinkered up

Questions about tinker up

What does tinker up mean?
Tinker up means to repair by tinkering.
What part of speech is tinker up?
Tinker up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tinker up?
The past tense of tinker up is tinkered up.

Words near tinker up in the dictionary

  1. tinked
  2. tinker
  3. tinker tailor grass
  4. Tinker to Evans to Chance
  5. Tinker to Evers to Chance
  6. tinker up
  7. tinker's curse
  8. tinker's cuss
  9. tinker's dam
  10. tinker's damn
  11. tinker's darn

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