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Definition of 'tweak'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- a tweak of the nose .
Trouble; distress; tweag.
A slight adjustment or modification.
- He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
(obsolete|slang) A prostitute.
* 1638 , , Barnabae Itinerarium: or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England : In latin and english metre , Thomas Gent (1852), page 113:
- […] Thence to Bautree, as I came there, / From the bushes near the lane, there / Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting / With a leering eye, and wanton : / But my flesh I did subdue it / Fearing lest my purse should rue it.
Verb
( en-verb)
To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
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(informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
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* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-03|volume=408|issue=8847|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= Boundary problems
|passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
To twit or tease.
(intransitive|US|slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
(intransitive|US|slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability; possibly a blend of twitch and freak.
(intransitive|US|slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement or other authority (e.g., customs agents, border patrol, teacher, etc.), mimicking methamphetamine abuse symptoms.
Derived terms
* (drug abuser) tweaker, (US)
* (drug abuse) tweaking
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