TWISTER

Twister

Twister is a 1996 American disaster drama film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.

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twister

Noun

  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. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
  3. A tornado.
  4. A girder
  5. The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
  6. A crook, a villain.
  7. The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.


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