Definitions

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  • noun A person who tweaks something.
  • noun A tool for making small adjustments.
  • noun slang A person addicted to methamphetamines.

Etymologies

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tweak +‎ -er; the drug-addict sense comes from the nickname of tweak for methamphetamines, in reference to addicts' punding behaviour.

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Examples

  • If you're more of a "tweaker" of factory or user patches, then the parameters that affect the entire instrument may be more your style.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • By Mike Jones Soundbooth had a shaky start to life, seemingly being designed as an audio 'tweaker' specifically for those who know nothing about audio production (Flash and website designers seemed to have been the primary demographic).

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  • I guess I am not a "system tweaker" because I see myself having absolutely no need for this ...

    Device Remover Is An Absurdly Powerful Device Manager | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The Quarter was about to curl up and take a catnap—except for Bourbon Street, party jamboree and flesh-fest central, twenty-four/seven, and as wide awake as a lap-dancing tweaker go-juiced to the eyebrows.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Earlier I tweeted this, referring to it as Ubuntu Tweakers, but then nixternal informed me a ‘tweaker’ is a meth head.

    Ubuntu Power Users Community | jonobacon@home 2010

  • Wendy has huge hellos for everyone who passes my stoop: the prison blue tattoo necks, the shrinking pigeon lady from across the street, the house painter with the wolf named Hendrix, the tweaker who mows her brown lawn at midnight.

    Before My Change Jar Went Missing Drew Jackson 2011

  • The Quarter was about to curl up and take a catnap—except for Bourbon Street, party jamboree and flesh-fest central, twenty-four/seven, and as wide awake as a lap-dancing tweaker go-juiced to the eyebrows.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • The Quarter was about to curl up and take a catnap—except for Bourbon Street, party jamboree and flesh-fest central, twenty-four/seven, and as wide awake as a lap-dancing tweaker go-juiced to the eyebrows.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • The Quarter was about to curl up and take a catnap—except for Bourbon Street, party jamboree and flesh-fest central, twenty-four/seven, and as wide awake as a lap-dancing tweaker go-juiced to the eyebrows.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Our gun-toting trolls remind me of a tweaker who pulled a gun in my favorite bar.

    Think Progress » Hatch Admits Hypocrisy: ‘A Lot Of Things Weren’t Paid For’ When Republicans Ran Congress During Bush Years 2010

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  • A person addicted to methamphetamines.

    December 18, 2008