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tweaker

British  
/ 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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Left-arm spinners Matt Kuhnemann and Cooper Connolly were additions to a largely settled 15-man squad, alongside chief tweaker Adam Zampa and part-timer Glenn Maxwell.

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

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.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2023

A lovely moment for the veteran tweaker, his name into the book on his old New South Wales home ground.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2020

By bringing “style” into it, Brooks nods to Flaubert’s reputation as a compulsive tweaker, someone who could spend all day reworking a paragraph.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2017

Rowan did as he was told and Scythe Rand passed the tweaker all over his body like some sort of magic wand.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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