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tweaker

/ ˈtwiːkə /

noun

  1. slang,  an engineer's small screwdriver, used for fine adjustments

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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There was technically nothing sacred about a place like Amvets, or my hometown, really — which in my day was overrun by lifted trucks and affectionately nicknamed Tweaker City.

Both videos end the way many of Ball’s clips on Primby’s account end, with Ball singing a particular line from son LiAngelo’s hit single “Tweaker” — “I might swerve, bend that corner, whoa-oh-oh.”

Three weeks ago, Big Baller Brand posted a video of Ball lounging on a couch while watching the “Tweaker” music video, which features all three of his sons.

On my trek west from there, I stopped in West Virginia where at a grocery store I ran across a large man working behind the counter who said, “Even a tweaker knows better than to vote for Trump.”

From Salon

Spin accounted for six of Australia's top seven - spearheaded by left-arm tweaker Ravindra Jadeja's 3-28 - paving the way for their quicks to later deliver the coup de grace.

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