noun, verb
noun (in the past) a person who travelled from place to place, selling or repairing things
IDIOMS
not give a tinker's cuss (BrE) (AmE not give a tinker's damn) (slang) to not care about sth at all
verb [V] ~ (with sth) to make small changes to sth in order to repair or improve it, especially in a way that may not be helpful:
He's in the garage tinkering with his bike. * The password will prevent others from tinkering with your data. * The government is merely tinkering at the edges of a much wider problem.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tinker is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does tinker appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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