tweaked

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of tweak.

   The designers tweaked the logo after customers said it was hard to read.

   The sound engineer tweaked the settings until the vocals came through clearly.

   Note

   The everyday meaning is a small adjustment: a tweaked design or a tweaked recipe has been changed only a little, and the form is regular, one spelling for the simple past and the past participle. The physical sense is still in use, as when someone tweaked a nose with a sharp pinch and twist. Slang adjectives share the spelling, describing someone on edge or high on meth.

2. 2
   adjectiveslang

   In a hallucinatory, often paranoid state brought on especially by crystal meth or a similar stimulant.

   Paramedics found him tweaked and convinced someone was hiding in the walls.

   She stayed up for three days and was so tweaked she kept seeing shadows move.

   Similarhigh, wired

   Oppositesober

   Note

   This is drug slang, tied to the American use of tweak for taking methamphetamine and for the jittery, erratic behavior that comes with it. Said of a particular person, tweaked accuses them of drug use, so it is not a neutral way to call someone confused or frightened. Keep it to casual talk or reported speech, never formal writing.

3. 3
   adjectiveslangfiguratively

   On edge, nervous, or tense.

   The whole office was tweaked waiting for the layoff announcement.

   She's been tweaked about the move for weeks and can barely sleep.

   Similaredgy, jittery, jumpy, tense

   Oppositerelaxed, calm

   Note

   It usually takes about for the cause of the nerves: tweaked about the move, or always tweaked about something, as the English version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) says of the anxious Koops. Unlike the drug meaning, it says nothing about what anyone has taken, only that they are wound tight.

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   adjectiveslangfiguratively

   Broken, messy, or out of order.

   The fence was all tweaked after the storm, with boards hanging every which way.

   The printer's paper tray is totally tweaked and won't stay shut.

   Similarbusted, broken, wrecked

   Note

   The picture is something given a sharp twist and left that way: a storm-bent fence, a paper tray that will not stay shut. It describes things rather than people, and it belongs to casual talk, usually with an intensifier in front, as in all tweaked or totally tweaked.

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