Crossword clues for twirl
twirl
- Spin, as a baton
- Take a spin
- Majorette's maneuver
- Emulate a majorette
- Dancer's move
- Spin round
- Show off with a baton
- Rotate, as a baton
- Brandish a baton
- Wield, as a baton
- To coil
- Show off a tutu, in a way
- Show off a new outfit, say
- Rotate like a spaghetti fork
- Revolutionary act
- Handle, as a baton
- Handle a majorette's baton
- Emulate a figure skater
- Drum major's move
- Baton maneuver
- Follow the majorettes
- Handle a baton
- Play with idly
- Spin around
- Majorette's motion
- Revolutionary movement?
- Pirouette
- Band majorette's move
- A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- The act of rotating rapidly
- Spin a baton
- Serve as drum majorette
- Use a baton
- Spin quickly round
- Dance move
- Rotate rapidly
- Go for a spin
- Take for a spin?
- Wield a baton
- "Dancing With The Stars" move
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twirl \Twirl\, v. i. To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.
Twirl \Twirl\, n.
The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.
A twist; a convolution.
--Woodward.
Twirl \Twirl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twirled; p. pr. & vb. n. Twirling.] [Cf. AS. [thorn]wiril a churn staff, a stirrer, flail, [thorn]weran, [=a][thorn]weran, to agitate, twirl, G. zwirlen, quirlen, to twirl, to turn round or about, quirl a twirling stick, OHG. dweran to twirl, stir. Cf. Trowel.] To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers.
See ruddy maids,
Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
--Dodsley.
No more beneath soft eve's consenting star
Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.
--Byron.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "move round rapidly" (intransitive), of uncertain origin, possibly connected with Old English þwirl "a stirrer, handle of a churn," and Old Norse þvara "pot-sticker, stirrer." Or on another guess a blend of twist and whirl. Transitive sense, "cause to revolve rapidly," is from 1620s. Related: Twirled; twirling.
1590s, "rapid circular motion," from twirl (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To perform a twirl. 2 (context transitive English) To rotate rapidly.
WordNet
n. a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight [syn: kink, twist]
the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twist, twisting, whirl]
v. turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: swirl, twiddle, whirl]
Wikipedia
Twirl is the act of spinning quickly and lightly, and it may also refer to:
- TWIRL, The Weizmann Institute Relation Locator, a hypothetical hardware device.
- Twirl (album), a 2009 album by Aomusic
- Twirl (chocolate bar), a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury
- Twirl (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
- Twirl (film), a 1981 movie about baton twirlers starring Erin Moran
Twirl is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury Ireland. Introduced by Cadbury Ireland as a single bar in the early 1970s, it was repackaged in 1984 as a twin bar. Although still produced in Ireland it has been marketed internationally since the 1990s and is now one of the best-selling chocolate single bar Cadbury owns. It consists of two Flake-style bars covered in milk chocolate.
The Twirl bar also has a snack sized version called Twirl Bites, which come in a bag containing several smaller Twirl like chocolates.
Twirl is the second studio album by the world music band Aomusic. It was released Feb 17, 2009 on Arcturian Gate. The album debuted on international music charts at #5.
Usage examples of "twirl".
He picked up a knife from the table and twirled it absently in his fingers.
He faced the new batsman, and then, of a sudden, twirled around and sent the ball whizzing to third.
Most simply twirled her in the air, laughing, forgetting her the instant they set her down, but the bolder ones, Norsirai mostly, either groped her or bruised her lips with fierce kisses.
I gave a mental twirl to the globe in the library and found Calabar on the western coast of Africa.
The native, first placing a calabash beneath the nose, as it were, of his curious-looking log-steed, for the purpose of receiving the grated fragments as they fall, mounts astride of it as if it were a hobby-horse, and twirling the inside of his hemispheres of cocoanut around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided.
In Cedar Hill, on the dance floor at the country club, there were bodies moving, dancing, men turning, women twirling, a voice singing, music playing, laughter ringing, heat rising.
The decaying forms of Deep Fields reared up in response to the unaccustomed noise, detached arms and legs, wheels and gears, spinning and cavorting, tumbling and twirling in a Danse Macabre such as Deep Fields had never seen.
The Doolin sounds are the ancient swirling and twirling, the huffing and puffing sounds that have a feirie resonance of their own.
I twirled Toni and I sucked Sue and the visions of the gray gomere twats and the diseased white and black and native American and under- and overprivileged twats were replaced by fuzzy blond Danish twats and a neat little clit writhing in those spangled gluteal folds.
When I regained my balance, my hands scrabbling along the walls, all that was left of my dark guildsman was a twirl of engine ice and London rubbish.
He twirled a knob, sending a bright blip representing Major Savage with the artillery racing diagonally from Astoria to Hillyer Gap, while the main force of the regiment continued up the Columbia, then turned east to the mountains, covering two legs of a triangle.
He twirled a knob, sending a bright blip representing Major Savage with the artillery racing diagonally from Astoria to Hillyer Gap while the main force of the Regiment continued up the Columbia, then turned east to the mountains, covering two legs of a triangle.
As the plane captain twirled his fingers and the huffer bellowed, Jake cranked the left engine.
Twirling in front of the mirror in a lavender jaconet morning dress trimmed with green ribbons, she wished George was there to see it.
He grasps the knurled cylinder in his left, gives the handle at the top a twirl.