1 ~ (sb) (around / round) to move or dance round and round; to make sb do this:
[V] She twirled around in front of the mirror. * [VN] He held her hand and twirled her around.
2 [VN] ~ sth (around / about) to make sth turn quickly and lightly round and round
SYNSPIN:
He twirled his hat in his hand. * She sat twirling the stem of the glass in her fingers.
3 [VN] to twist or curl sth with your fingers:
He kept twirling his moustache.
noun the action of a person spinning around once:
Kate did a twirl in her new dress.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for twirl is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is twirl a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, twirl is tagged as verb.
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