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There are 38 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun twist, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Call it another twist in the story of an accidental heartthrob turned self-effacing star — or simply the irony of teller and tale — but despite his discomfort with visibility, Arlaud has become one of the most outspoken left-wing voices in contemporary French cinema.
1959 "The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – originally released by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side, but going to No. 1 in the US upon being covered by Chubby Checker (released 1959, charted in 1960 and 1962), [1] who would become the artist most associated with the Twist phenomenon.
Idiom be/go round the twist (Definition of twist from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
If you twist something, especially a part of your body, or if it twists, it moves into an unusual, uncomfortable, or bent position, for example because of being hit or pushed, or because you are upset.
A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. quotations I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
a treatment, method, idea, version, etc., esp. one differing from that which preceded: The screenwriters gave the old plot a new twist. the changing of the shape of anything by or as by turning the ends in opposite directions.
