twisting

twisting
 n.β€” Β«Chee, who prefers his mouth rather than a helium tank to blow up balloons the past 14 years, said he never saw β€œtwisting,” as the medium is called, as his livelihood.Β» β€”β€œScottsdale artist blows away audiences with balloons” by John Leptich East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Arizona) Jan. 15, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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