Definition of "twister"

twister

/ˈtwɪstə(ɹ)/

noun
plural twisters
1. One who twists.
  1. One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
2. An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
  Quotations
  He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
  1653, John Wallis, Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ
3. A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
4. (colloquial) A tornado.
5. (carpentry) A girder.
6. (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
7. (Britain, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
  Quotations
  “I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”
  1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX
8. A species of libellulid dragonfly, Tholymis tillarga, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
9. The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.