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tweaker slang.|ˈtwiːkə(r)|
Also tweeker.
[f. tweak v. + -er1.]
1. A catapult.
1884C. H. Her World vii. 39 Every now and then taking aim with his ‘tweeker’..at the said person below. 1897Badminton Mag. Apr. 459 A few shot from a ‘tweaker,’ commonly called a catapult.
2. Cricket. colloq.
a. A bowler who spins or ‘tweaks’ the ball, esp. a left-arm leg-spinner.
b. A ball bowled with spin.
1948C. Sly How to bowl them Out ii. 17 The slow bowler should have great patience... There should also be an element of precision in his brain—a slapdash fellow will never make a good ‘tweaker’. 1956R. Alston Test Commentary 12 Johnson's insidious ‘floaters’ were likely to be more penetrative than Ring's ‘tweakers’. 1961Times 12 June 3/6 Lancing's leg tweaker came on too late. 1976J. Snow Cricket Rebel 40 When I came into the side Ron Bell, a left-arm spinner, was the only genuine tweaker of the ball on the staff. 1982Guardian 26 July 19/3 The fragile left-arm tweakers of Steele.
▸ orig. and chiefly U.S. A user or addict of methamphetamine or (occas.) crack cocaine. Cf. tweak v. Additions.
1988San Francisco Chron. 19 Sept. a6/1 There are ‘boomers’, ‘tweakers’ and survivors. The boomers sell crack, the tweakers smoke it and the survivors stay out of the way. 1990J. Wambaugh Golden Orange v. 52 He's this little speed tweaker, like our snitch. Spends his time in low-life meth labs breathin more ether fumes than all the patients at Hoag Hospital put together. 1995Vanity Fair Aug. 70/1 Ron X claimed that a number of criminals in recent news stories were all on crystal meth. He called them tweeker freak-outs, a slang term for habitual users of the drug. 2001N.Y. Mag. 5 Mar. 72/2 Philip K. Dick..whose fan base has long consisted of pimply Dungeons & Dragons aficionados and twitchy, hollow-cheeked amphetamine tweakers. |