How tweased can anybody get on two
beers?tweeked[tWikt] mod. alcohol intoxicated.
(Collegiate.) They’re not really
bombed—just tweeked a little. Fred was
too tweeked to stand up.
twenty-four, seven and 24-7mod. all the
time, twenty-four hours a day, seven days
a week. He’s always at home, 24-7!
twenty-twenty hindsight and 20/20
hindsightn. an ability to figure out what
one should have done after it is too late
to do it. Everybody has twenty-twenty
hindsight! Your 20/20 hindsight is just
great.
twerpGo to twirp.
twiddle one’s thumbstv. to do nothing;
to wait nervously, playing with one’s fin-
gers. I sat twiddling my thumbs while
you were out doing I don’t know what all!
Don’t just sit home twiddling your
thumbs.
twinkie[“tWINki] n. a cute, teenage girl.
(California.) The mall up from the
beach is usually wall-to-wall twinkies.
These twinkies ought to be a little more
grown up than they seem to be.
twirp and twerp[tW#p] n. an annoying
runt of a person. (Also a term of ad-
dress.) Look, you twirp, get out! Some
little twerp threatened to kick me in the
shin.
twistn. a girl; a woman. (Underworld. Pos-
sibly rhyming slang twist and twirl =
girl.) This good-looking twist comes over
to the table and asks Lefty if he’d like to
dance. He says yes, and the twist says,
“Go ahead, I bet it’s a scream!”
twisted 1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. She
was so twisted she couldn’t see. That
chick is really twisted bad. 2. mod. suf-
fering from drug withdrawal. (Drugs.)
Frank was twisted and hurting bad.
When you’re twisted, your head spins, and
you feel like screaming.
twister 1. n. a key. (Underworld.) Yo u
got the twister for this joint? Ziggy
snatched the jailer’s twisters and waited
until midnight to try something. 2. n. a
tornado. A twister touched down yes-
terday at an isolated farm seventy miles
north of Adamsville. The twister didn’t
damage any homes. 3. n. a drunken spree.
(See also bender.) Harry’s off on a
twister again. Not again. It’s the same
old twister.twist in the windGo to twist (slowly) in
the wind.twist (slowly) in the windin. to suffer the
agony of some punishment, such as
hanging. (Figurative only.) I’ll see you
twist in the wind for trying to frustrate this
investigation. The prosecutor was de-
termined that Pete would twist slowly in
the wind for the crime.twist someone’s armtv. to pressure some-
one. I had to twist her arm a little, but
she agreed. Do I have to twist your arm,
or will you cooperate?twit 1. n. a nervous or frantic state. The
twit I was in made me seem sort of silly,
I’m afraid. My confused state became a
serious twit, and I didn’t know what to do.- n. a stupid person. (Also a term of ad-
dress.) What a yuppie twit! Hey, you
twit, get off my lawn!
two-bitmod. cheap; small-time. Max is
just a two-bit pusher. I want Mr. Big.
I’m tired of your two-bit efforts to run this
office.two-bitsn. twenty-five cents; a quarter
coin. Can I bum two-bits for the phone?
Here’s two-bits for your piggy bank.two-by-fourmod. small. A two-by-four
office with a chair and a desk was where
Barlowe hung out. I can’t stand living
in this two-by-four room!twofer[“tuf#] n. an item that is selling two
for the price of one. Here’s a good
deal—a twofer—only $7.98. Everything
is this store is a twofer. I only want one of
these. Do I have to bring a friend who
wants one, too?two fingersn. a measurement of liquor in
a glass. (See also three fingers.) I’ll
take two fingers of that tiger milk, John.
Just two fingers tonight, John?tweeked