English

Proper noun

Twister

1. A party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in random positions without falling.
   • 2008, Daccia Bloomfield, Dora Borealis

     In the foyer, a game of Twister has started. It's appealing because all of the women are wearing lowriders.

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Twister.

External links

• Twister (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• retwist, witters, writest

English

Noun

twister ‎(plural twisters)

1. One who twists.
   1. One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
   • Wallis

     He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.

3. (colloquial) A tornado.
4. (carpentry) A girder

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5. (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
6. (Britain, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:

     “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.”

7. The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:twister.

Derived terms

• titty twister
• tongue-twister

See also

• dust devil
• water spout
• willy-willy

Anagrams

• retwist, witters, writest

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twis.te/

Etymology

From twist +‎ -er.

Verb

twister

1. (dance) to dance the twist, to twist

Conjugation