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 (software), a test automation solution by ThoughtWorks Studios
- 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
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Famous quotes containing the word twist:
“The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or, again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.”
—Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
“Mark Twain didn’t psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn’t put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)
“He is the bully on the Left Bank, always ready to twist the milksop’s arm.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)