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Tweak

//twiːk// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.

    "a tweak of the nose"

  2. 2
    a squeeze with the fingers wordnet
  3. 3
    A slight adjustment or modification.

    "He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally."

  4. 4
    Trouble; distress; tweag.
  5. 5
    A prostitute. obsolete, slang

    "Thence to Bautree, as I came there, From the bushes near the lane, there Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting With a leering eye, and wanton: But my flesh I did subdue it Fearing lest my purse should rue it."

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  1. 6
    Methamphetamine. slang
  2. 7
    A single inhalation of cocaine. slang
  3. 8
    An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
Verb
  1. 1
    To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. transitive

    "to tweak the nose."

  2. 2
    adjust finely wordnet
  3. 3
    To adjust slightly; to fine-tune. informal, transitive

    "If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural."

  4. 4
    to be under the influence of methamphetamine wordnet
  5. 5
    To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc). transitive

    "Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say."

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  1. 6
    pull or pull out sharply wordnet
  2. 7
    To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth. US, intransitive, slang
  3. 8
    pinch or squeeze sharply wordnet
  4. 9
    To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse. US, intransitive, slang
  5. 10
    To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening. broadly, intransitive, slang

    "Am I tweaking or does 2020 feel like 6 months ago?"

  6. 11
    From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile. uncommon

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

Etymology 2

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

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