If you tweak something, especially part of someone's body, you hold it between your finger and thumb and twist it or pull it. He tweaked Guy's ear roughly. If you tweak something such as a system or a design, you improve it by making a slight change. He expects the system to get even better as the engineers tweak its performance. More @Wikipedia
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