Usually means: Rotating column of air, tornado.
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  1. twister: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twister: Merriam-Webster
  3. twister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twister: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twister: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twister, twister: Wordnik
  8. twister: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Twister, twister: Wiktionary
  10. twister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twister: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twister: Dictionary.com
  14. twister: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Twister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twister: Rhymezone
  20. Twister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. twister: FreeDictionary.org
  23. twister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. twister: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. twister: Encyclopedia

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. twister, twister: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Twister, twister, the twister: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Twister: Sports Definitions

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who twists.
noun:  One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
noun:  An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
noun:  A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
noun:  (colloquial) A tornado.
noun:  (carpentry) A girder.
noun:  (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
noun:  (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
noun:  Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
noun:  The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
noun:  A party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in randomly selected positions without falling.

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