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twirl
noun- a key, especially a skeleton key UK, 1879
Because a burglar twirls it as he uses it. - The Governor has given orders that his person is to be searched regularly for twirls. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 62, 1956
- So the day before we made ourselves busy in the tin shop. Making twirls. We were not sure w[h]ether we could make one that would fit the hand cuffs[.] — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 48, 1958
- O.K.–now let’s get the twirl out and swing back the old baronial doors[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 26, 1962
- a prison officer UK, 1933
From the sense as “a key”. - I saw the twirl who was still standing at the door of my peter. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 15, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 117, 1996
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