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Answer for the clue "Tinker with ", 5 letters:
tweak

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Word definitions for tweak in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "a twitch, a pluck," from tweak (v.). As "a fine adjustment" by 1989.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tweak \Tweak\, n. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose. --Swift. Trouble; distress; tweag. [Obs.] A prostitute. [Obs.] --Brathwait.

Usage examples of tweak.

We found that when we manipulated the tweaker, we were actually choosing a descriptor, pulling it from the cloud, and changing it directly.

That means storing some results in the unused descriptors within the tweaker.

She smoothed on a layer of makeup and erased the more prominent lines, applied mascara and lip gloss, tweaked and ruffled her hair into an approximation of what Dick Dart had accomplished.

None of this is as obvious as it sounds, since the entire stack is slowly rotating in rotisserie mode during the entire time, occasional tweaks aligning the stack for better heating or cooling purposes.

She lifted her hips, taking his cock deeper as he continued to flick her clit lazily, tweaking and tugging on it until she was whimpering and straining.

Ryan, plumply incongruous in his green glitter suit, was snorting with effort before he had taken a dozen paces, and Benger, who was still tweaking himself, kept leaping in the air and emitting yelps of pain.

Gradually, the claws on my sash, the milkweed pods, everything else prodding between our tightlocked bodies tweaked into more comfortable positions and drifted out of my consciousness.

With some internal rerouting of signals, he had tweaked another millisecond or two off the blocking field buildup time, but it was still essentially half a second too slow.

Though the sound quality was poor, by tweaking the parametric equalizers, and pumping up the compressors, most of the conversation became audible.

Having busted Dawn twice when she was a tweak monster on crystal meth, and hearing that she was now, heavy into speedballs, Letch figured she was ripe to roll over on her pimp.

The secret, sustaining garden, my illicit fantasy having nothing to do with lucre or lust, was that by tweaking a few knobs, by having just these two friends, by clearing a space as wide as possible in my unstretched heart, the last living woman in Brooklyn Heights might contain multitudes, might grow to fill the dense bruise of killer buildings carefully designed to eat me.

From this budget came money to build a larger laboratory in Melas Dorsa, for research on constructing larger versions of tweaker mirror matter drives.

Terman tweaked his test to close a gender gap but not the interethnic differences.

It was exiled before the others tweaked their neurochemistry into more sensitive modes.

She leered at Plautus and he reached to tweak one of her prominent nipples as she laughed and swung away.