Definition of "twirl"

twirl

/ˈtwɜːl/

noun
plural twirls
1. A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
2. Any rotating movement; a spin.
3. A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
  Quotations
  Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.
  1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51
4. (slang) A prison guard.
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  Which was in the main childishness and pettiness, the reason for this was that most of the twirls and the governors had […]
  1958, Frank Norman, Bang to rights: an account of prison life, page 67
verb
third-person singular simple present twirls, present participle twirling, simple past and past participle twirled
1. (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
2. (transitive) To rotate rapidly.
  Quotations
  See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
  1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
  No more beneath soft eve's consenting star / Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.
  1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], stanza XLVII
3. (transitive) To twist round.
  Quotations
  He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation.
  1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 85
4. (baseball) To pitch.
  Quotations
  When the batteries were announced, however, and Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox, probably the best pitcher in all baseballdom, was named to twirl for the invading team, we felt we had been tricked.
  1949, Mark Raymond Murnane, Ground Swells: Of Sailors, Ships, and Shellac, page 302

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