Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who contorts, especially an acrobat capable of twisting into extraordinary positions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises gymnastic feats requiring great suppleness of the joints and involving contorted or unnatural postures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes or practices contortions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
acrobat who is capable oftwisting his or herbody into unusual positions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions
Etymologies
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Examples
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What do you call a contortionist from the Philippines?
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"Personally, I think one of the worst examples is the 'contortionist' - my bike is actually too big for those lockers!"
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"Personally, I think one of the worst examples is the 'contortionist' - my bike is actually too big for those lockers!"
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It's like every American's worst nightmare of what France must be like, a world in which a contortionist is their version of a superhero and people who sleep on the sidewalk are actually listened to as some sort of fountain of wisdom.
Cinema Blend Feeds 2010
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Miss Pedersen says he would therefore have had to be a 'contortionist' to have killed himself by slashing his left wrist, as Lord Hutton concluded in 2004.
Canada Free Press 2010
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That type of locker has been dubbed the 'contortionist' because it requires cyclists to lift their bikes up on to their rear wheels to fit them inside.
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That type of locker has been dubbed the 'contortionist' because it requires cyclists to lift their bikes up on to their rear wheels to fit them inside.
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This first winter issue has interviews with vegan celebs such as contortionist Rubber Richie, medal-winning body builder Pete Ryan, and musician Debbie Leigh Driver, and features on vegan stars like Natalie Portman and Chris Martin.
Indymedia Ireland 2009
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My poor injured brain gets all twisted up like some circus contortionist even trying to imagine how this procedure would work.
Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011
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The championship rivalry began in April 1959, when the Minneapolis Lakers, led by high-scoring, mid-air contortionist Elgin Baylor and veteran Vern Mikkelsen, rallied from a last- place season the year before to upset the favored St. Louis Hawks in the Western Conference Finals.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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