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Look up twist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Twist may refer to:
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- Twist (comic), a comic by John Cook
- Twist (physics), a force (causing twisting)
- Twist (poker), a special round in some variants of stud poker
- Twist ending, an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction
- Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST), a non-profit financial industry standards group
- French twist, a hair styling technique
- Twist fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri)
- Twist, the oldest form of chewing tobacco
- Alexander "Chimp" Twist, a minor P. G. Wodehouse character
- Twist (ride), a popular amusement ride, often seen on travelling funfairs
- Twist (sweets), a Norwegian bag of sweets, now produced in Sweden
- Twisting properties in statistics
Music
- Twist (album), a 1994 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn
- The Twist (album), a 1984 LP by Danish indiepop band Gangway
- "The Twist" (song), a 1960s hit single made famous by Chubby Checker and written and originally recorded by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
- Twist (dance), a rock and roll dance named after the song
- "Twist" (song), from the 2000 album Farmhouse by jam band Phish
- "Twist" (Goldfrapp song), a single from the 2003 album Black Cherry, by British electronica duo Goldfrapp
- Twist (Chris and Cosey album), an album by Chris and Cosey
- "Twist (KoRn song)", from the 1996 album Life Is Peachy by metal band Korn
- "Twisting", a song by They Might Be Giants
- "The Twist", a song from the album "Grow Up and Blow Away" by Metric
- "Twisting by the Pool", a song by Dire Straits
Film and stage
- Twist (film), a 2003 independent film loosely based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist
- Twist, a stage thriller by Miles Tredinnick
- Jack Twist, a character from the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain
- Twist (1995 film), a Hong Kong film starring Simon Yam(lie)
People
- Barry McGee (born 1966), also known as Twist, painter and graffiti artist
- Sean Twist, Canadian author and freelance newspaper columnist
- Michael Twist, Canadian author and teacher
- Tony Twist, Canadian hockey player
- Leroy Casey, a disk jockey
Places
- Twist, Arkansas, a city in the United States
- Twist, Devon, a hamlet in southwest England
- Twist, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony
Cell Biology
- TWIST, a protein