twister
Use Twister in a sentence
tər noun
1.
a person or thing that twists.
2.
Informal. a whirlwind or tornado.
3.
Chiefly British Informal. a deceitful, unscrupulous person.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (Brit) a swindling or dishonest person |
| 2. | a person or thing that twists, such as a device used in making ropes |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) an informal name for tornado |
| 4. | a ball moving with a twisting motion |
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Twister
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
twister
1579, "one who spins thread," from twist (v.). Meaning "tornado" is attested from 1897, Amer.Eng.
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Slang Dictionary
twister definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The violent and deadly twister ripped through the downtown area, killing and injuring hundreds.
While no state is immune to a twister's violent winds, there are places where they touch down more often.
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