Usually means: Rotate or spin around quickly.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word twirl:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. twirl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twirl: Merriam-Webster
  3. twirl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twirl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twirl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twirl: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twirl, twirl: Wordnik
  8. twirl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. twirl: Wiktionary
  10. twirl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twirl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twirl: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twirl: Dictionary.com
  14. twirl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twirl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TWIRL, Twirl (chocolate), Twirl (chocolate bar), Twirl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twirl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twirl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twirl: Rhymezone
  20. twirl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twirl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. twirl: FreeDictionary.org
  23. twirl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. twirl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twirl: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TWIRL: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Twirl: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. twirl, twirl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. twirl: The Folk File
  3. twirl: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
noun:  Any rotating movement; a spin.
noun:  A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
noun:  (slang) A prison guard.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
verb:  (transitive) To rotate rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To twist round.
verb:  (baseball) To pitch.

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