tweaker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who tweaks something.
    — 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. A person addicted to methamphetamine. slang
    — 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. A person addicted to methamphetamine.; A person seen as demented, crazy, or jittery, or a person displaying those qualities. broadly,slang
  5. A spin bowler. slang

词形变化

tweakers plural

词源

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