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twisty

[ twis-tee ]

adjective

, twist·i·er, twist·i·est.
  1. (especially of a road) twisting twisting or winding:

    a twisty little path through the woods.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of twisty1

First recorded in 1855–60; twist + -y 1

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Example Sentences

We can get to Lake Tahoe in about 45 minutes, but part of the fun is the drive itself, a twisty part of I-80 that goes up the mountains and through gorgeous pine trees.

Head straight for Lamoille Canyon, the twisty, remote road in middle-of-nowhere Nevada that takes you into the mountains.

Plot-wise, however, No Sudden Move is twisty — and to be honest, it can be pretty confusing.

From Vox

The question propels Grady Hendrix’s twisty new novel, which builds off of tropes in horror movies to ask what happens to the people left standing after a massacre.

From Time

Children who are 42 inches and taller can choose between swirling along a twisty open-air slide spanning 230 feet or rocketing into the pool via a closed slide.

It had better reviews entering the market than Bachelorette, it had a twisty plot, it had the stars.

As her best friend Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) said, she was “dark and twisty.”

One predicted side effect of inflation is primordial gravitational waves: twisty ripples in the structure of the Universe.

They then hurried over to the twisty slide, looking as happy as anybody could be—except for maybe their dad.

That said, Collette, Donovan, and McDermott are very good, and this could develop into something twisty and taut.

It was like running though a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, every one leading to the same dead end.

I ain't been twisty inside once since I been here, and I don't want to go away, and Snap don't, either.

Unless I'm mistaken, we got turned around in that rainstorm on those twisty roads, and the Park begins nearby.

The streets are miles long and very twisty, and have paths on each side made of bright worsted.

Pearly and Twisty were out there, but they were not playing.

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