Definition of "tinkerers" [tinkerers]

• Plural form of tinkerer. (noun)

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• "In April she sent an e-mail to people she variously calls "tinkerers and makers," "wonderful eccentric genius types" and "weirdos," of whom there is no shortage in this city."
• "As a side note: We know that the bio-'tinkerers 'recently succeeded in' resurrecting 'the 1918 Spanish Flu using gene mapping of samples taken from victims in which dna still survived in sufficient form to be able to reconfigure the virus even though it had gone extinct by now."
• "But Tom Gage and the gang of tinkerers at AC Propulsion had a different vision."