Talk:tweeker
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Connel MacKenzie in topic tweeker
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# {{rfv-sense}} A [[tool]] used to [[adjust]] electronic equipment.
Any takers? SemperBlotto 21:46, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
- Presumably tweaker was meant.—msh210℠ 21:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
- I think it must just be tweaker. There is what looks like a brand name tweaking tool called "Tweeker" made by Extron which has a bizarre-usage contest. I found one often-cited journal article. It is also slang for a meth user, but the citations I found so far are it in durably preserved media. I hadn't looked in usenet. DCDuring 15:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
- Extron Electronics's website has the following glossary entry: "Tweeker - A small screwdriver for making sensitive adjustments to audio/visual and other electronic equipment. An Extron specialty." It doesn't look generic at all. I could not find any usage in this sense other than at their web site.
- Also, the meth user sense is in blogspace and urbandictionary.com DCDuring 15:40, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
- Looking at b.g.c. tweeker vs. tweaker, I think this is becoming a "common" misspelling of tweaker (slang sense.) I'm not sure it can be reliably called "intentionally incorrect" or "jocular." But it (this spelling) certainly is wrong, just as certainly as it (this spelling) is in use. --Connel MacKenzie 18:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)