<span class="searchmatch">tinker</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">tinkers</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">tinkering</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">tinkered</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>) (transitive)...
The sonarman picks <span class="searchmatch">up</span> the enemy, shoots the position to the radar controller sitting near him, and the radar controller, in a <span class="searchmatch">Tinker</span>-to-Evers-to-Chance...
this is a <span class="searchmatch">tinkerer's</span> paradise, allowing you to spec <span class="searchmatch">up</span> your squad's weapons and armour to your heart's content, at least once you have built <span class="searchmatch">up</span> the confidence...
[…], published 1853, →OCLC: I was passable enough when I went with the <span class="searchmatch">tinker</span>, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my...
<span class="searchmatch">tinker</span>, to disturb to tune (an instrument) to begin, to instigate (a war, a quarrel), to stir <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, to raise (a matter) to strike <span class="searchmatch">up</span> (music) to stir <span class="searchmatch">up</span>...
people usually fail. (informal) A person who <span class="searchmatch">tinkers</span> or fixes things <span class="searchmatch">up</span>; in particular, someone who fixes <span class="searchmatch">up</span> houses, properties, etc. as an investment....
<span class="searchmatch">up</span> the slack) Alternative form of take <span class="searchmatch">up</span> the slack. To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut. 1946, Horace G. Tapply, Tackle <span class="searchmatch">Tinkering</span>,...
1974, John Le Carré, <span class="searchmatch">Tinker</span> Tailor Soldier Spy, Folio Society, published 2009, pages 266–7: Flares exploded, Very lights went <span class="searchmatch">up</span>, even tracer, and as...
<span class="searchmatch">up</span> waste fibres in a roller machine. (transitive) To signal with one's eyebrows. 2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie, page 23: Rodas watched <span class="searchmatch">Tinker</span> disappear...
voróčalsja… He threw his pipe on the table, began pacing <span class="searchmatch">up</span> and down the room, then <span class="searchmatch">tinkered</span> with the stove. Finally he lay down, coughing, spitting and...