Usually means: Unexpected change in story direction.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. twist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twist, the twist: Merriam-Webster
  3. twist, the twist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twist, the twist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twist, twist: Wordnik
  8. twist, the twist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. twist: Wiktionary
  10. twist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twist: Dictionary.com
  14. twist (n.), twist (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Twist (album), The Twist (film), The Twist (song), The Twist, The twist, Twist (Emsland), Twist (Goldfrapp song), Twist (album), Twist (cocktail garnish), Twist (confectionery), Twist (dance), Twist (disambiguation), Twist (film), Twist (magazine), Twist (mathematics), Twist (novel), Twist (rational trigonometry), Twist (ride), Twist (screw theory), Twist (software), Twist (stage play), Twist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twist: Rhymezone
  20. twist, twist (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Twist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. twist: FreeDictionary.org
  24. twist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. twist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. twist: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Dance (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The twist, twist: Legal dictionary
  3. twist: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The twist, twist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TWiST, The twist: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TWIST: Acronym Finder
  2. twist: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Twist: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. twist, twist, twist, twist: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Twist: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Twist: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. twist: Urban Dictionary
  5. Twist: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Twist: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Twist: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A twisting force.
noun:  Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
noun:  The form given in twisting.
noun:  The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
noun:  A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
noun:  A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
noun:  A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
noun:  A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
noun:  An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A rotation of the body when diving.
noun:  A sprain, especially to the ankle.
noun:  (obsolete) A twig.
noun:  (slang) A girl, a woman.
noun:  A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
noun:  A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
noun:  The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
noun:  A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
noun:  (slang, archaic) An appetite for food.
verb:  To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
verb:  To join together by twining one part around another.
verb:  To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
verb:  To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
verb:  (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
verb:  To turn a knob etc.
verb:  To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
verb:  To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
verb:  To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
verb:  (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to rotate.
verb:  (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
verb:  (transitive) To coax.
verb:  (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Short for hair twist. [(mostly in plural) A portion of twisted strands of hair forming part of an Afro-textured hairstyle somewhat resembling short dreadlocks.]

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