The use of personal pressure to persuade / The use of political pressure to gain support

(idiomatic) An unfortunate, often ironic turn of events.

(slang) Mad. / (slang) Eccentric.

(Cockney rhyming slang) Drunk, pissed.

A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.

A rotating cutting tool, used for cutting holes in rigid materials, that consists of an essentially conical point, relieved and fluted to form cutting lips, and spiral flutes which direct the chips away from the lips and toward ejection from the hole.

plural of twist drill

To fret; to worry ineffectually.

present participle of hanky-twist

simple past tense and past participle of hanky-twist