"knob-twiddler" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1949, Bernard Newman, Shoot!, page 207",
          "text": "Mr. Telson was a confirmed knob-twiddler. Often he would work along the whole range of his radio, to 'see what he could get.'",
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        {
          "ref": "1964 July 16, New Scientist, page 148",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, page 173",
          "text": "But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain, page 157",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs."
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        "(informal) A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "knob twiddler"
        }
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        "informal"
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  "word": "knob-twiddler"
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        {
          "ref": "1949, Bernard Newman, Shoot!, page 207",
          "text": "Mr. Telson was a confirmed knob-twiddler. Often he would work along the whole range of his radio, to 'see what he could get.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 July 16, New Scientist, page 148",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, page 173",
          "text": "But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain, page 157",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs."
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        "(informal) A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "knob twiddler"
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