Dec 1, 2012 · Billy meets love interest Pam (Modine) working at Ida’s Trinkett Tree, a local store and clever twist on Ira’s Toy Store — where the first Billy was employed in the 1984 movie.

TWIST definition: to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine. See examples of twist used in a sentence.

Idiom be/go round the twist (Definition of twist from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

To pressure or coerce: If you twist my arm, I'll stay for a second beer. [Middle English twisten, to squeeze, be divided, from twist, a divided object, fork, rope, from Old English -twist; see dwo- …

If you twist something, especially a part of your body, or if it twists, it moves into an unusual, uncomfortable, or bent position, for example, because of being hit or pushed, or because you …

6 days ago · A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. quotations I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.

Definition of twist noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

a treatment, method, idea, version, etc., esp. one differing from that which preceded: The screenwriters gave the old plot a new twist. the changing of the shape of anything by or as by …

I don't need magic to twist you up in knots. The sound made her gut twist and her chest tighten. Twist your hip more when you hit with the left. Jessi roused herself enough to twist in his arms …

A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction. [1] When it happens near the end of a story, it is known …