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CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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twister

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

twist=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun twister has 2 senses

twister(n = noun.phenomenon) tornado - a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground;

is a kind of cyclone

has particulars: supertwister, waterspout

Derived form verb twist₁

twister(n = noun.food) cruller - small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts;

is a kind of friedcake

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CIDE DICTIONARY

twister, n.

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. [1913 Webster]
The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. [1913 Webster]
"He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine." [1913 Webster]
A girder. Craig. [1913 Webster]
The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback. Craig. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

twister, n.
1 Brit. colloq. a swindler; a dishonest person.
2 a twisting ball in cricket or billiards.
3 US a tornado, waterspout, etc.

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THESAURUS

twister

apple fritter, baguio, beignet, beignet aux pommes, bismarck, cheat, con man, confidence man, crook, cruller, cyclone, deceiver, doughnut, dust devil, fastnacht, fraud, friedcake, fritter, hurricane, imposter, impostor, mountebank, olykoek, rainspout, raised doughnut, rogue, rotary storm, sand column, sandspout, scoundrel, sinker, swindler, tornado, trickster, typhoon, waterspout, whirlblast, whirlwind, wind eddy