1
: one that twists
especially
: a ball with a forward and spinning motion
2
: a tornado, waterspout, or dust devil in which the rotatory ascending movement of a column of air is especially apparent
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Speaking of weather events, who remembers this powerful twister that hit Johnson County in 1966?
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Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
The premiere ends with the 113 arriving at a country music festival, where an impending twister has torn apart the stage, resulting in several life-and-death crises.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2025
The tornado that ended the 12-year gap actually hit back in June, but new damage analysis has upgraded a deadly twister initially categorized as an EF3 near Enderlin, North Dakota.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
There will also be music, face painting, crafts, balloon twisters, Morningside Hearses, Ghostbusters, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Curiosity Cruiser, hayrides and more.
—Laura Daily, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2025
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Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
The premiere ends with the 113 arriving at a country music festival, where an impending twister has torn apart the stage, resulting in several life-and-death crises.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2025
The tornado that ended the 12-year gap actually hit back in June, but new damage analysis has upgraded a deadly twister initially categorized as an EF3 near Enderlin, North Dakota.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
There will also be music, face painting, crafts, balloon twisters, Morningside Hearses, Ghostbusters, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Curiosity Cruiser, hayrides and more.
—Laura Daily, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Twister.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twister. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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