A tornado.
A crook, a villain.
A girder
One who twists.
The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
A species of libellulid dragonfly, Tholymis tillarga, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance.