Noun : a verbal contortionist. From Dictionary.com.
What do you call a contortionist from the Philippines?. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 137] Reference
"Personally, I think one of the worst examples is the 'contortionist' - my bike is actually too big for those lockers!". From Wordnik.com. [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference
I could walk the tightrope and do contortionist things. From Wordnik.com. [Circus Dogs] Reference
His body proved as supple as a professional contortionist. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
Not something you would wish on anybody but a contortionist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003] Reference
"Poor gal's kinked like a cement contortionist," Miller said. From Wordnik.com. [Break No Bones]
Ms. DE SELA: One of my sisters is a contortionist and acrobat. From Wordnik.com. [Singer, Songwriter Lhasa De Sela Dies] Reference
How about a contortionist who gets stuffed into a Plexiglas box?. From Wordnik.com. [chicagojo Diary Entry] Reference
Not something that you would wish on anybody but a contortionist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003] Reference
COLLINS: Another star of Alegria, a young Mongolian contortionist named Ochkee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2005] Reference
A man would have to be a contortionist to both face his fear and flee from it. '. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Warriors]
The "strict contortionist" is always babbling about judges who "legislate from the bench". From Wordnik.com. [No Strict CONTORTIONIST For The Supreme Court] Reference
MOOS: To the Mercedes that calls itself the contortionist for its advanced retractable technology. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2002] Reference
And without gorilla arms, it would take a contortionist to reach beneath the divider accidentally. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: Making Our Men's Rooms Safe for Democracy] Reference
That I'm some kind of freakin 'contortionist and what? what? what did they say?! we have to de-ice?. From Wordnik.com. [weeme Diary Entry] Reference
Let the record show that Senator John McCain is a rank panderer and contortionist of the first rank. From Wordnik.com. [McCain, me, and the Little Engine that Could] Reference
Their seating positions are high enough that getting in and out doesn't require contortionist stunts. From Wordnik.com. [Dispelling Myths About Synthetic Oil] Reference
That's excruciatingly uncomfortable, not something that you would wish on anybody but a contortionist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003] Reference
And the front seats fold way forward, so you don't have to be a contortionist to get into the back seat. From Wordnik.com. [Road Test | Ragtop Beetle] Reference
It was the only way he could do his hair in a motel bathroom without imitating a Mongolian contortionist. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
Just days before his contortionist act on Social Security, John McCain reversed course on the estate tax as well. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: Our Campaign Isn't "Negative In The Slightest"] Reference
Okay, so the contortionist and belly dancer aren't technically in the running, but their talents are totally impressive. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Asia USA Beauty Pageant Previews: Who Should Win? (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference
“That's because he has become everybody's ideal of the dedicated political contortionist,” said the Piglet, grinning. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I see Lalo using the amazing contortionist right wing rationalization tact to manipulate hard facts into conservative reality. From Wordnik.com. [Dems Open Major Populist Offensive Over McCain's Houses Gaffe] Reference
Not the case for me and the nine intrepid, infinitely contortionist souls who stuffed themselves in my car four hours earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Nice was nice] Reference
The son of a contortionist and a Greek trapeze artist, he started his own business -- the Circo Ruso -- at the tender age of 17. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Goodbye] Reference
There was a masque by Gascoigne, and an Italian contortionist who seemed to have no human backbone at all, but to be made only of cords. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Oklahoma's Mr. Griffin, a contortionist around the basket, manages to score over opponents despite constant, swarming double-team defenses. From Wordnik.com. [College Basketball's Moveable Beasts] Reference
She thought of more pleasant things, like waking to see Myron folded up in that hospital chair like a contortionist from Le Cirque du Soleil. From Wordnik.com. [Deal Breaker]
But the "strict contortionist" would say that there is no such law and that the arsenic dumper is just exercising his own "liberty" in doing so. From Wordnik.com. [No Strict CONTORTIONIST For The Supreme Court] Reference
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