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Yes, tinker is playable

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"Tinker" Definition

noun

A clumsy repairer or worker; a meddler.
A traveling mender of metal household utensils.
Chiefly British A member of any of various traditionally itinerant groups of people living especially in Scotland and Ireland; a traveler.
One who enjoys experimenting with and repairing machine parts.
A usually itinerant mender of household utensils.

verb-intransitive

To make unskilled or experimental efforts at repair; fiddle: tinkered with the engine, hoping to discover the trouble; tinkering with the economy by trying various fiscal policies.
To work as a tinker.

verb-transitive

To manipulate unskillfully or experimentally.
To mend as a tinker.

verb

To work in the manner of a tinker.
To repair, adjust, or work with something in an unskilled or experimental manner .
To repair, adjust, or experiment with.

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