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(n)
A twisting force.
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(Internet slang, LGBTQ) A girl of boyish appearance.
(v)
(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
(transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
(adj)
Having many twists
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
The act of turning a pirouette.
(archaic) A whirling motion or dance.
A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
The act of swivelling.
Synonym of tumble turn.
A stray hair that is difficult to style.
The act, or an instance, of swinging.
(swimming) A turn used to reverse the direction in which the person is swimming.
A wriggling movement.
(music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.
(Physical movement.) (intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).
(figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
A prancing movement.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
(US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
A dance step, involving revolving without moving forward, sometimes used in a Viennese waltz
A spinning-platform amusement ride that exposes its riders to unpredictable combinations of tilting, spinning and horizontal movement.
A fluttering movement
A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
(professional wrestling) A situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a hero changes to being considered a villain
A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
Abrupt changes in direction or orientation (often used figuratively).
To flop or flap about.
A change from one thing to its opposite, or from a situation to the reverse.
(usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
A fall, especially end over end.
An act of flirting.
(now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
(archaic) A complete oscillation.
A flip (hairstyle)
(gymnastics) A movement in which one's body is rolled forward, by putting the head on the ground and swinging the legs over the head.
A plait or curl.
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
Someone who or something that moves.
A fluttering or darting movement.
A tortuous or winding journey.
A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
A popular dance of the 1940s.
A sudden bright light.
A turn in the other direction; one of the turns of a zigzag.
(gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
(zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
Archaic form of flirt. [A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion]
A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
Synonym of sign waver.
The act of one who wriggles.
The act of something that tumbles.
The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
(skateboarding) An ollie where the board is rotated 360 degrees along its axis.
A turn; trick; stratagem.
Synonym of merry-go-round (“carousel ride”).
A back-and-forth movement.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
A jump or plunge into water.
The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
(archaic) A dream.
An ancient dance of the Renaissance which incorporated many challenging twists and skips.
(transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
Extremely important.
A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
The act or process of something that switches.
Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.
The practice of frequently altering one's views and opinions to follow current trends.
A wobbling motion.
A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.
Phrasing, turn of phrase.
A caper, or canter.
The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
The action of inverting.
(dance) The principal dance move in Lindy Hop