Twist

Twist may refer to:

• Twist (cocktail garnish), a decorative piece of citrus zest
• Twist (comic), a comic by John Cook
• Twist (screw theory), in applied mathematics and physics
• Twist (magazine), an American teen magazine
• Twist (poker), a special round in some variants of stud poker
• Twist (ride), a popular amusement ride, often seen on travelling funfairs
• Twist (sweets), a Norwegian bag of sweets, now produced in Sweden
• Twist ending, an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction
• Ellipse Twist, a French hang glider
• French twist (hairstyle), a hair styling technique
• Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST), a non-profit financial industry standards group
• Twist fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri)
• Twist lifts, a type of lift in pairs figure skating
• Twist tobacco, a type of chewing tobacco
• Twist transcription factor
• Twisting properties in statistics
• Operation Twist, an effort (in 1961, and again in 2011) by the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower long-term interest rates

Fictional characters

• Jack Twist, a character from the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain"
• Alexander "Chimp" Twist, a minor character from P. G. Wodehouse
• Oliver Twist, the leading character in the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens
• Twist Morgan, a character in the Channel Four series Spaced

Music

• Twist (album), a 1994 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn
• The Twist (album), a 1984 album by Danish indiepop band Gangway
• "The Twist" (song), a 1960s hit single made famous by Chubby Checker
  • Twist (dance), a rock and roll dance named after the song
• "The Twist", a song from the album Grow Up and Blow Away by Metric
• "The Twist", a song from the album Coming Back Hard Again by hip hop band Fat Boys
• "Twist" (song), from the 2000 album Farmhouse by Phish
• "Twist" (Goldfrapp song), a single from the 2003 album Black Cherry by Goldfrapp
• Twist (Chris and Cosey album), an album by Chris & Cosey
• "Twist (KoRn song)", from the 1996 album Life Is Peachy by metal band Korn
• "Twisting", a song from the album Flood by They Might Be Giants
• Twist (band), a rock band from Birmingham, UK

Film and stage

• Twist (film), a 2003 independent film loosely based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist
• Twist (stage play), a stage thriller by Miles Tredinnick
• Twist (1995 film), a Hong Kong film

People

• Barry McGee (born 1966), also known as Twist, painter and graffiti artist
• Sean Twist, Canadian author and freelance newspaper columnist
• Tony Twist, Canadian hockey player
• Leroy Twist 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

See also

• Twisted (disambiguation)
• Twister (disambiguation)