Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pinch, pluck, or twist sharply.
- intransitive verb To adjust; fine-tune.
- intransitive verb To make fun of; tease.
- intransitive verb To behave in an agitated or compulsive manner, especially when under the influence of a stimulant drug.
- intransitive verb To be under the influence of a stimulant drug, especially methamphetamine.
- noun A sharp, twisting pinch.
- noun A small adjustment.
- noun A teasing remark or action; a joke.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To twitch; pinch and pull with or as with a sharp jerk; twinge.
- noun A sharp pinch or jerk; a twitch.
- noun A pinch; dilemma; perplexity: as, to be in a sad tweak. E. Phillips, 1706. Also tweag, tweague.
- noun A prostitute.
- noun A whoremonger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
- noun A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
- noun obsolete Trouble; distress; tweag.
- noun obsolete A prostitute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sharp
pinch orjerk ; atwist ortwitch . - noun
Trouble ;distress ;tweag . - noun A slight adjustment or
modification . - noun obsolete, slang A
prostitute . - verb transitive To pinch and
pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. - verb transitive, informal To
adjust slightly; tofine-tune . - verb transitive To
twit ortease . - verb intransitive, US, slang To abuse
methamphetamines , especiallycrystal meth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a squeeze with the fingers
- verb pinch or squeeze sharply
- verb pull or pull out sharply
- verb adjust finely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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All you need for this minor tweak is an aluminium strip, a drill, and a screw that will fit into the plate on the bottom of your camera.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans say they'll repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law, but tinker and tweak is as far as they're likely to get.
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Creating camera-phone-friendly QR codes with a goo. gl shortlink URL tweak is nice, but one of our readers took the next logical step.
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Applying the tweak is simple enough — just download, extract and double-click on the registry hack file to apply the changes to the registry.
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Mr. Stringer said raising the tax rate to 4.332% from 3.876% for the wealthiest New Yorkers, a move he described as a "tweak," would allow for a "huge, meaningful" tax cut to 95% of the city.
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Today's whole-grain tweak: Using whole-wheat pastry flour and almond meal for baked goodies.
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Today's whole-grain tweak: Brown rice in idlis and dosas.
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He described it as a ` ` slight groin tweak '' and said he would be re-evaluated Tuesday.
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Her tweak is that caps should be lifted so that all income is subject to SS taxation.
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Seems that the premise of I Am Legend is getting quite a tweak from the original story.
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