Noun

(en noun)

One who twists.

# One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.

* Wallis

He, twirling his twister , makes a twist of the twine.

(colloquial) A tornado.

(carpentry) A girder

(Craig)

(dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

(British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IX , passage=“I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”}}

The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

Noun

(twisties)

Something that is , such as a road

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 18, author=Lawrence Ulrich, title=There’s More Than Meets the Eye, work=New York Times citation

, passage=On lonely twisties in upstate New York, the driver of a Porsche Boxster S surely found my unshakable Mini anything but cute. }}

A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 22, author=Randal C. Archibold, title=I Have Taken on My Daughter’s Hair and Won, work=New York Times citation

, passage=I was introduced to the panorama of twisties , barrettes, hair and scalp conditioner (basically hair grease), brushes for every occasion and narrow- and wide-tooth combs. }}