word of the day
“tweak.” Adjust, as in, I’ve been tweaking the stylesheets. Also to twist or pinch – I was coming along the boards and Domi checked me, and I just tweaked my knee a little, and now I’m out for the season. Also, fucked: the club was waaaay hot and when the uppers kicked in it tweaked me right up.
Obsolete meanings: trouble, prostitute.
Theres nothing like tweeking a nice pink nipple.
I once knew a street kid who was so hopped up on all kinds of shit that we just called him “Tweak”. The name stuck around, though I’m not sure he did.
Result: When I started working in the media industry, it took a long time to get used to everyone who talked about “Tweaking” a layout.
It’s got such a jerking, spastic feel to it — great onomatopoeia.
Nipples and street kids and tweaks – oh my!
It’s also a great bird call.
I’d like to bring back the obsolete meanings, but how do you deploy it in conversation? Trouble – Oh, man, there’s tweak a-comin’… This shit is tweaked? Dunno.
Also: more stories about Tweak the Street Kid, please.
There isn’t much of a story about Tweak, really. He was a good kid, and one of the few Toronto street kids to successfully fight his squeegee tickets.
Eventually, he just took a turn for the worst. Sad to watch people go downhill so fast.
To employ both obsolete definitions: He was never a tweak, but I’m guessing he caused a lot of tweak.
[Suddenly, I feel like I’m bleeping words out. Or like I’m a lesser cousin of the smurfs.]
The tweaks, who are only 1.5 apples tall?
You know, when the smurfs tower over you, you must get quite the inferiority complex….