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What does twist mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word twist? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A twisting force.
  2. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
  3. The form given in twisting.
  4. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
  5. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
  6. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
  7. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
  8. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
  9. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance)
  10. A rotation of the body when diving.
  11. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
  12. (obsolete) A twig.
  13. (slang) A girl, a woman.
  14. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
  15. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
  16. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
  17. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
  18. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
Verb
  1. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
  2. To join together by twining one part around another.
  3. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
  4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
  5. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
  6. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
  7. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
  8. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
  9. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
  10. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
  11. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
  12. (transitive) To coax.
  13. (card game) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
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