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noun (English)
1. (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.Examples: "Come on, baby, let's do the twist Take me by my little hand and go like this"; "Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring Seems he was troubled by just one thing Opened the lid and shook his fist And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" It's now the Mash It's now the Monster Mash."; "Well, let's dance, well let's dance. We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too Any old dance that you want to do But let's dance."countableuncountable
2. (obsolete) A twig.Examples: "No twiſt, no twig, no bough nor branch […]"countableobsoleteuncountable
3. (slang) A girl, a woman.Examples: "James and Ruby danced over beside us. ‘Did you tell her?’ he asked, looking at me. I nodded. ‘Wait a minute,’ Gloria said, as they started to dance away. ‘What’s the big idea of talking behind my back?’ ‘Tell that twist to lay off me,’ James said, still speaking directly to me."; "(Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops""countableslanguncountable
4. (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.Examples: "We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal."; "[…] this Katie Byrne was a great favourite with Art and Con, to whom she always brought a gift of tobacco twist, when she came on a visit, and Art and Con were great chewers of tobacco twist, and never had enough, never never had enough tobacco twist, for their liking."countableuncountable
5. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.countableobsoleteslanguncountable
6. (slang, archaic) An appetite for food.Examples: "Hope you’ve brought good appetites with you, gentlemen. You, Doolan, I know ave, for you’ve always ad a deuce of a twist."; "He [the yearling bull] had a good handsome male head, and he had a capital twist. He had a spring in his rib, and was something over seven feet in girth. He was well covered, and had all the recommendations of quality, symmetry, and size."archaiccountableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.Examples: "Avarice twists itself into all human concerns."reflexive
2. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.Examples: "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."; "My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me."intransitive
3. (transitive) To cause to rotate.Examples: "The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round."transitive
4. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).Examples: "Twist it in the alley With long tall Sally Twistin' with Lucy Doin' the watusi."intransitive
5. (transitive) To coax.Examples: ""On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]""transitive
6. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
Definition source: Wiktionary