Knob-twiddler
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Knob-twiddler is a noun meaning (informal) A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs.
Meaning
(informal) A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs.
Example Sentences
But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.
Mr. Telson was a confirmed knob-twiddler. Often he would work along the whole range of his radio, to 'see what he could get.'
Recorded in 1995, 'Spaceman' had been hanging around unnoticed for a year when an ad agency knob-twiddler chanced upon it, or rather one very, very small part of it.
If you're a dedicated knob twiddler what follows can hold no pleasure for you. If jumping doggedly up and down in constant conflict with the electronics of a TV set is your idea of an evening's bliss, then don't read on.
Word Forms
- knob-twiddlers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include twiddler, tweeker, knobber, knob, knob-thatcher, knob-gobbler.
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