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Dishonest person
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twister
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES tongue twister EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A team of scientists chases tornadoes, then the twisters chase the scientists. ▪ Being in a car that is lifted into the sky by a twister tends to give you good material. ▪ I mistrust ...
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Twister is a compilation album by Washington, D.C. Indie band Unrest , released on September 9, 1988 by TeenBeat Records .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "one who spins thread," agent noun from twist (v.). Meaning "tornado" is attested from 1881, American English.
Usage examples of twister.
The ship, running sub-space and pilotless, plowed headlong into the next gravitic twister and broke up.
Through glass panes the visitor may watch on the sand below the antics of the local clown-slimes, as well as the predacious stone-tigers and the sinuous twisters.
The twister is dead safe normally, but this trembler switch is brought into circuit as soon as it is armed.
The Twister was covered in a one piece sheath of polished anodised aluminum, the Doctor in a two-piece grey gabardine.
Cyrus Harding, having at his disposal neither carders, combers, polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny, nor self-acting machine to spin the wool, nor loom to weave it, was obliged to proceed in a simpler way, so as to do without spinning and weaving.
I staggered and lurched forward, and the twister, with myself above and still clinging desperately to it, crashed heavily on to the tarpaulins with a shock that seemed to shake the entire floor of the hold.
Twister would sit the little guy right behind the bench,' Feeley said, hitting free throws and talking at the same time.
The dust was'a thick glowing cloud around her, obscuring the sky, the rock, even the twister itself.
Every elevated surface was heaped with tools, magazines, paperback books, bottles and broken appliances, and the floor was crammed with camping equipment, automobile and motorcycle parts, tires, cardboard boxes, hockey sticks, and plastic bags tied with metal twisters.
And if them littluns climb back on the twister again they'll only fall off in a sec.
Those littluns who had climbed back on the twister fell off again and did not mind.
If they have space-time twisters, they can pop up anywhere, steal what they want - or replace a real human with a convincing fake - and be gone like switching off a light.
If they have space-time twisters, they can pop up anywhere, steal what they want -- or replace a real human with a convincing fake -- and be gone like switching off a light.
I slap a Twister on the deck mat and lay the syringe on the run-in groove, lining up the ghost track on the skull-phones, then letting the whole thing kick into bloom with a Manc yell.
I think it's meant to blow up the twister in sympathetic detonation if the twister's own time mechanism doesn't work.