a dance popular in the 1960s, in which couples vigorously twist the hips in time to rhythmic music
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Examples of 'the twist' in a sentence
the twist
`Not because he's obsessed or round the twist or anything like that, but because they are at the centre of hisintellectual life.
Anthony Masters CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD (2001)
Ah, but you would have to be really round the twist to get pleasure out of it.
Cleary, Jon MURDER SONG (2001)
All related terms of 'the twist'
round the twist
crazy
twist the knife
to deliberately do or say things which make a situation even worse for someone who is already upset or experiencing problems
twist the lion's tail
to tax the patience of or provoke a person, group, nation , or government, esp. that of Great Britain
twist the knife in sb's wound
If you twist the knife in someone's wound , you do or say something to make an unpleasant situation they are in even more unpleasant.
to twist the knife twist the knife in sb's wound/turn the knife in sb's wound
If you twist the knife or if you turn the knife in someone's wound , you do or say something to make an unpleasant situation they are in even more unpleasant.