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Twister
//ˈtwɪstɚ// name, noun, slang
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Proper Noun
- 1 A party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in randomly selected positions without falling.
"In the foyer, a game of Twister has started. It's appealing because all of the women are wearing lowriders."
Noun
- 1 One who twists.
- 2 small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts wordnet
- 3 One who twists.; One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- 4 a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground wordnet
- 5 An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
"He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine."
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- 6 A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- 7 A tornado. colloquial
- 8 A girder.
- 9 The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback. dated
- 10 A crook, a villain. British, colloquial
"“I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”"
- 11 Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- 12 The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
Etymology
From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.
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