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tweak; tweek
verb- to experience the effects of crack cocaine use; to use crack cocaine US
- Then there are wounds inflicted with knives, baseball bats and other weapons when drug users are “tweaking,” the street jargon for the volatile behavior that accompanies crack. — New York Times, p. 20, 6 August 1989
- to experience the effects of methamphetamine use; to use methamphetamine US
- Then there are wounds inflicted with knives, baseball bats and other weapons when drug users are “tweaking.” — New York Times, p. 20, 6 August 1989
- “Tweeker Park,” they call it, for all the “crank” addicts who “tweek” there after staying up for days. — Portland Oregonian, p. 1, 13 November 1989
- Disgusted, Blaze said, “You were better off tweaking.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 7, 1996
- “I tweaked for days. I liked all the weight I was losing – I lost about 30 pounds just like that – and I liked the high, being very much there.” — Phoenix New Times, 18 December 1997
- to bend US
- — Elena Garcia, A Beginner’s Guide to Zen and the Art of Snowboarding, p. 123, 1990: “Glossary”
- in computing or electronics, to make a minor adjustment US
- If a program is almost correct, rather than figuring out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works. — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 127, 1983
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