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  • noun Plural form of twister.

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Examples

  • Unlike brain twisters such as Lost and 24, viewers can pick up the branches of Men in Trees immediately.

    Can ABC'S quirky 'Men in Trees' climb higher? 2008

  • I believe that if it is constantly brought to the public eye like you did the word twisters will not get away with it quite so easy.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • "Because we're always going to be remembered as the class of the tornado and tornadoes are also called twisters, we decided that we were going to have Twister boards on our head and we were going to stick Twister dots on Coach Mac," said graduate Erik Cederholm.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2010

  • "Because we're always going to be remembered as the class of the tornado and tornadoes are also called twisters, we decided that we were going to have Twister boards on our head and we were going to stick Twister dots on Coach Mac," said graduate Erik Cederholm.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2010

  • "Because we're always going to be remembered as the class of the tornado and tornadoes are also called twisters, we decided that we were going to have Twister boards on our head and we were going to stick Twister dots on Coach Mac," said graduate Erik Cederholm.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2010

  • "Because we're always going to be remembered as the class of the tornado and tornadoes are also called twisters, we decided that we were going to have Twister boards on our head and we were going to stick Twister dots on Coach Mac," said graduate Erik Cederholm.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2010

  • So while people are used to it, they know how serious and how damaging these kind of twisters can be.

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2007 2007

  • But how about yer "twisters"'nd the cyclones you have there,

    The California Birthday Book Various

  • Grace Ward, their captain, at the end of the over quietly rolled the ball to Ida Bellamy, famed for her slow "twisters".

    The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907

  • No ball came amiss to him; he was up to "twisters," and "lobs," and "thunderbolts," and walked into them all with faultless dexterity.

    Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

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