tweakin'......what's it mean?
Lee Carkenord
This is a word I hear teenagers using a lot lately......
I am sure its slang......possibly drug related?
What does it mean, or refer to?
Lee Carkenord
Tony Cooper
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Tweaking just means to adjust something in small increments. Back in
the 50s, we tweaked our television picture by moving the rabbit-ears
around. We tweaked our automobile engines by making small adjustments.
Today, most tweaking is done on computers. It's hardly a new term, and
not at all related to drug use.
Having said that, there may be a current usage that I'm not familiar
with. I think some teens use it to refer to playing computer games, but
I'm not sure how.
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Mark Wallace
There's also the 'tweak' of a sharp-ish tug on a rope or line.
Fishermen (and Canadian fishers) do it all the time.
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meirman
<mwallace...@dse.nl> posted:
>Tony Cooper wrote:
>> "Lee Carkenord" <cark...@juno.com> wrote in message
>> news:4346b55e.02090...@posting.google.com...
>>> "Tweaking".......or "tweakin".......
>>>
>>> This is a word I hear teenagers using a lot lately......
>>>
>>> I am sure its slang......possibly drug related?
>>>
>>> What does it mean, or refer to?
>>
>> Tweaking just means to adjust something in small increments.
>> Back in the 50s, we tweaked our television picture by moving the
>> rabbit-ears around. We tweaked our automobile engines by making
>> small adjustments. Today, most tweaking is done on computers.
>> It's hardly a new term, and not at all related to drug use.
>>
>> Having said that, there may be a current usage that I'm not
>> familiar with. I think some teens use it to refer to playing
>> computer games, but I'm not sure how.
>
>There's also the 'tweak' of a sharp-ish tug on a rope or line.
>Fishermen (and Canadian fishers) do it all the time.
Yes, I think in general there was a prior usage, meaning to pinch and
twist, as in to tweak your little brother's nose.
Just a guess that kids may be using it as a substitute for freakin'
which was a substitute for something vulgar.
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dimestore
anxiety or a subtle level of odd behavior. Somebody is a tweaker if they
are a little off somehow. This could refer to a person under the influence
of drugs, but not necessarily.
"What was with that guy? What a tweaker."
"Joan will totally tweak when she finds out there is a test today."
-Dimestore
Peter Duncanson
All this is summarised by COD9
tweak v. & n.
v.tr.
1 pinch and twist sharply; pull with a sharp jerk; twitch.
2 make fine adjustments to (a mechanism).
n. an instance of tweaking.
[probably an alteration of dialect twick from Old English
twiccian: related to twitch]
SOED dates v1 to 1601 and n to 1609, and cautiously says [origin
obsc].
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Peter D.
UK
(posting from a.e.u)
meirman
Duncanson <ma...@peterduncanson.net> posted:
I only had "pinch and twist" but I love it when, without ever looking,
I'm word for word with what the dictionary says.
Thanks for posting this.
>; pull with a sharp jerk; twitch.
>2 make fine adjustments to (a mechanism).
>n. an instance of tweaking.
>[probably an alteration of dialect twick from Old English
>twiccian: related to twitch]
>
>SOED dates v1 to 1601 and n to 1609, and cautiously says [origin
>obsc].
Howard G Walker
It's probably according to context.
1. To adjust slightly, fine tuning.
2. To agitate or to tick off, slightly.
Odysseus
>
> Having said that, there may be a current usage that I'm not familiar
> with. I think some teens use it to refer to playing computer games, but
> I'm not sure how.
>
configuration, like the 3-D acceleration settings in video boards.
--Odysseus
John Dean
Onelook has several slang refs http://www.onelook.com/?w=tweaking&ls=a
Suggested meanings -
Tweak mission - on a mission to find crack
Tweaker - crack user looking for rocks on the floor after a police raid
Tweaking - drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed
Tweaks - Crack Cocaine
Tweek - methamphetamine-like substance
Tweeker - methcathinone
Tweeker - a person addicted to meythamphetamines
--
John Dean
Oxford
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Tony Cooper
> Onelook has several slang refs http://www.onelook.com/?w=tweaking&ls=a
>
> Suggested meanings -
>
> Tweak mission - on a mission to find crack
> Tweaker - crack user looking for rocks on the floor after a police
raid
> Tweaking - drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed
> Tweaks - Crack Cocaine
> Tweek - methamphetamine-like substance
> Tweeker - methcathinone
> Tweeker - a person addicted to meythamphetamines
You are certainly more hip than I am.
John Dean
> "John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote in message news:al2nv3
>
>> Onelook has several slang refs
>> http://www.onelook.com/?w=tweaking&ls=a
>>
>> Suggested meanings -
>>
>> Tweak mission - on a mission to find crack
>> Tweaker - crack user looking for rocks on the floor after a police
>> raid Tweaking - drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed
>> Tweaks - Crack Cocaine
>> Tweek - methamphetamine-like substance
>> Tweeker - methcathinone
>> Tweeker - a person addicted to meythamphetamines
>
> You are certainly more hip than I am.
Solid gone, daddy-o
--
John 'is hip like hep?' Dean
hep-cat
Oxford
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EmersonDameron
>
>This is a word I hear teenagers using a lot lately......
>
>I am sure its slang......possibly drug related?
In its current, annoyingly trendy slang incarnation, it means exhibiting
hyperactivity, paranoia and other symptoms of amphetamine psychosis. It's,
indeed, drawn from drug slang, but, like "pimpin'," is now used by teenagers to
describe their friends' less illicit antics.
~ED
Yuno Hu
In article <al3vl2$1mtg16$1...@ID-113505.news.dfncis.de>, "Tony
Cooper" <tony_co...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>"John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote in message news:al2nv3
>
>> Onelook has several slang refs http://www.onelook.com/?w=tweaking&ls=a
>>
>> Suggested meanings -
>>
>> Tweak mission - on a mission to find crack
>> Tweaker - crack user looking for rocks on the floor after a police
>raid
>> Tweaking - drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed
>> Tweaks - Crack Cocaine
>> Tweek - methamphetamine-like substance
>> Tweeker - methcathinone
>> Tweeker - a person addicted to meythamphetamines
Methamphetamine.
>
>You are certainly more hip than I am.
>
Back in the 80s there were bumperstickers around reading
"Tweekers Suck". More common was "Mean People Suck". The former
tend to be a subset of the latter.