tweaker

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Noun

tweaker (plural tweakers)

  1. A person who tweaks something.
    • 2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred:
      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.
  2. A tool, especially a screwdriver, for making small adjustments.
  3. (slang) A person addicted to methamphetamine.
    • 2015 May 5, Mike Catherwood, quotee, “Discussion of Mental Illness and RedFlag Special”, in CNN‎[1]:
      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.
  4. (cricket, slang) A spin bowler.

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.