| 释义 |
twist
noun- a girl AUSTRALIA, 1924
- When a lunkhead and his twist spat in a night club, it’s etiquette for him to dash after her and slip her cab fare. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 222, 1948
- I roused my ludicrous pal-of-old and watched him dress in beautiful clothes and eat in the breakfast nook the meal served by the brunette twist. — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 166, 1971
- “There’s no justice,” Canaan said. “That twist I seen you with the other day. A twist like that, a gonif like you. Like Bambi and Godzilla.” — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 62, 1987
- the passive, “feminine” member of a lesbian relationship US
- — American Speech, p. 59, Spring-Summer 1970: “Homosexual slang”
- a marijuana cigarette US, 1920
The paper end is twisted to prevent the loss of its contents. - — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 291, 2003
- a small bag or paper wrap of heroin UK
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 210, 2002
- a turn to buy drinks in a group of people drinking IRELAND
- My twist, said Jimmy Sr. He stood up. Same again over here, Darren, please! — Roddy Doyle, The Van, p. 77, 1991
- severe pressure or coercion to do something
- It’s a long story. I got no choice. The cops put a twist on me. I had to do it to save my baby. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 84, 1996
- a multiple bet, gambling on three different horses in separate races in a total of seven bets UK
More popularly known as a PATENT. - — David Bennet, Know Your Bets, p. 78, 2001
▶ around the twist
eccentric, crazy NEW ZEALAND- — Sonya Plowman, Great Kiwi Slang, p. 15, 2002
|