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a tornado pretending to be a party game, or vice versa, with equal commitment
means A whirling, destructive column of wind that touches the ground — a tornado — or, by extension, anything that twists, spins, or tangles.
from From the Old English verb 'twistan,' to twist, itself rooted in the notion of two strands turning together (a cousin of 'twine' and 'twin'). The agent suffix '-er' makes 'twister' simply 'the thing that twists.' Its use for a tornado is an American coinage, born on the open prairies where people watched the sky literally wring itself into a rope. The party game came much later, a 20th-century invention that borrowed the same image of limbs and bodies wound into knots.
- game year
- Twister launched in 1966, branded immoral sex in a box
- contortion math
- Four limbs, sixteen circles, infinite ways to lose dignity
- storm chasers
- Real twisters can fling cars over a mile
- film twist
- 1996's Twister flung an actual cow on screen
- wind speed
- The strongest tornadoes top 300 miles per hour
twister game — milton bradley board game invented in 1966, still sold globally with colored dots and spinner
tri-state tornado outbreak — march 18, 1925 tornado that killed 695 people across missouri, illinois, and indiana
lubbock texas tornado — may 11, 1953 f5 tornado that destroyed downtown lubbock, killing 114 people