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Twister   /twˈɪstər/   Listen
Twister

noun
1.
A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground.  Synonym: tornado.
2.
Small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts.  Synonym: cruller.



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"Twister" Quotes from Famous Books



... was Captain Hook (of whom ye have heard—so called from his terrible cold steel twister, His own right hand having gone to a shark with a taste for skippers on pirate-trips), There was Silver himself, with his cruel crutch, and the blind man Pew, with a phiz like a blister, Gouged and white ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes


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