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  1. noun A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities.
  2. intransitive verb To have a tic; produce tics.

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  • Such a twitch is usually known as a tic (a word arising from the same root that "twitch" does, perhaps). —  The Human Brain
  • It was an automatic tic, a habit like thumbsucking or nail-biting, it had driven Bobby nuts. —  Black and Blue
  • Here a rare potted tic, there a twitch in full petal, everywhere exotic tropical wrinkles digging their anxious roots into the humus of my flesh. —  Another Roadside Attraction
  • *** tic (tic@eckert. info.polymtl.ca) has joined channel #ansi —  The Lamer Cronicles Issue #1 by Prostrate Breath
  • *** tic is now known as dEEPLY_D —  The Lamer Cronicles Issue #1 by Prostrate Breath
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French.

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  1. Formerly tick (see tick); from French tic (Old French also ticq, ticquet), a twitching, a disease of horses; especially in the phrase tic douloureux, ‘painful twitching,’ facial neuralgia; cf. tic, a vicious habit, = Italian ticchio, a ridiculous habit, whim, caprice; origin uncertain.
 

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