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tweaker

tweaker noun: a person who tweaks something.

Noun

tweaker (plural tweakers)

  1. A person who tweaks something.
    • That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred
  2. A tool, especially a screwdriver, for making small adjustments.
  3. (slang) A person addicted to methamphetamine.
    • I`ve seen it a lot with stimulant addicts. It`s exactly like tweakers and coke heads. When it gets into the, you know, the advanced stages of addiction of certain stimulants, it sounds exactly like it.2015 May 5, Mike Catherwood, quotee, “Discussion of Mental Illness and RedFlag Special”, in CNN
    • The Spunion: This is the broken wookie. Like Keller said, “there’s a tweaker by the speaker.” It’s not entirely his fault. He just tried to reach for the stars…too much, too soon. And he probably didn’t have a capable doctor to help him augment his prescription. It might just be time for a Jedi...2020 January 26, “The Wook in You”, in Wook Wranglers Magazine, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023
    1. (broadly, slang) A person seen as demented, crazy, or jittery, or a person displaying those qualities.
  4. (slang) A spin bowler.

Forms of tweaker

pluraltweakers

Origin of tweaker

From tweak + -er; the drug addict sense derives from the slang term tweak for methamphetamines, in reference to the punding behavior of addicts.

Questions about tweaker

What does tweaker mean?
Tweaker means a person who tweaks something.
What part of speech is tweaker?
Tweaker is a noun.
What is the plural of tweaker?
The plural of tweaker is tweakers.

Words near tweaker in the dictionary

  1. tweakable
  2. tweakage
  3. tweaked
  4. tweaked on
  5. tweaked out
  6. tweaker
  7. tweakers
  8. tweakery
  9. tweakier
  10. tweakiest
  11. tweakified

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