- tinker, tinkerer - a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
--1 is a kind of experimenter
Derived form: verb tinker1 - tinker - an itinerant Gypsy
--2 is a kind of itinerant
- mender, tinker, tinkerer - a traveling repairman who mends broken things (such as metal household utensils)
--3 is a kind of repairman, repairer, maintenance man, service man, fixer
Derived form: verb tinker2 - chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus - small mackerel found nearly worldwide
--4 is a kind of mackerel
--4 is a member of Scomber, genus Scomber - mender, tinker, tinkerer - a traveling repairman who mends broken things (such as metal household utensils)
- putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
--1 is one way to work
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun tinker1, noun tinkerer2, noun tinkerer1
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- tinker - work as a tinker or tinkerer
--2 is one way to work, do work
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun tinker3, noun tinkerer3
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- tinker, fiddle - try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
--3 is one way to repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
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