Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are stilltweaking it.
2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, inThe Economist[1]:
Yet on January 10th, only weeks before the charter was due to come into force, the prime minister said his government wastweaking the draft.
1995, Alida Brill, Feminist Press,A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide, Feminist Press at CUNY (→ISBN), page 177:
Oh, he loved totweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say.
2003, Ann McCutchan,The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process, Oxford University Press on Demand,→ISBN, page92:
I know what kinds of intervals and melodiestweak people—I know how to make people's skin crawl, how to make them shiver. I can't say it works on all listeners. There are some people, such as overly trained composers and theorists ...
2006, Clarence Rockey,Carlisle Trace President of the People, Lulu.com,→ISBN, page171:
“Russia needs leadership and he knows how totweak people.” He grinned, “He made a convert of me,” chuckling. “I wanted to lead him by the hand, now I follow him like a puppy dog.”
2011, Sara J. Henry,Learning to Swim: A Novel, Crown,→ISBN, page183:
But I know he likes totweak people. For a while he was giving Colette, the receptionist, a hard time, until she learned to ignore him. But that ability that lets him see how totweak people makes him a superb salesman.
(intransitive,US,slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
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1638,Richard Brathwait, edited by Thomas Gent,Barnabae Itinerarium; or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England: In Latin and English metre[6], published1852, page113:
Thence toBautree, as I came there, From the bushes near the lane, there Rush'd atweak in gesture flanting With a leering eye, and wanton: But my flesh I did subdue it Fearing lest my purse should rue it.
