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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To draw, pull, or move suddenly and sharply; jerk: I twitched my fishing line.
  2. v. To move jerkily or spasmodically. See Synonyms at jerk1.
  3. v. To ache sharply from time to time; twinge.
  4. n. A sudden involuntary or spasmodic muscular movement: a twitch of the eye.
  5. n. A sudden pulling; a tug: The fish gave my line a twitch.
  6. n. A looped cord used to restrain a horse by tightening it around the animal's upper lip.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pull or draw with a hasty jerk; snatch; jerk away.
  2. To give a short, sudden pull or tug at; jerk at; cause to move quickly or spasmodically.
  3. To nip; squeeze; make fast; tie tightly.
  4. To be suddenly jerked; move or contract quickly or spasmodically, as a muscle.
  5. To carp; sneer; make flings. Compare jerk, intransitive verb, 2.
  6. n. A short, sharp pull or tug; a jerk or snatch.
  7. n. A short, spastic contraction of the fibers of muscles; a stitch; a twinge: as, a twitch in the side; convulsive twitches; especially, such a movement when causing pain: sometimes applied to moral pangs.
  8. n. A pair of nippers or tweezers.
  9. n. A noose attached to a stock or handle and twisted around the upper lip of a horse so as to bring him under command when shoeing or clipping: an instrument used for holding a vicious horse.
  10. n. In mining, a sudden narrowing of a vein so that the walls come nearly or quite together.
  11. A dialectal variant of touch.
  12. n. The quitch or quitch-grass, Agropyrum repens. The name is also applied to the bent-grass, Agrostis vulgaris, and to a few other grasses, as the sheep's-fescue, Festuca ovina, called black twitch.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
  2. n. informal Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
  3. n. A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
  4. v. intransitive To perform a twitch; spasm.
  5. v. transitive To jerk sharply and briefly.
  6. v. transitive To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
  7. n. couch grass, a species of grass, often considered as a weed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch.
  2. n. The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull.
  3. n. A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction.
  4. n. (Far.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
  2. n. a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
  3. v. move or pull with a sudden motion
  4. v. move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions
  5. v. squeeze tightly between the fingers
  6. v. make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion

Etymologies

  1. Middle English twicchen; possibly akin to Low German twikken. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I've had a good life. * twitches a little* And now, now I get to finally see Silicon Heaven. * twitch twitch* Silicon Heaven IS real!”

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  • “RD is in fact the greatest work in English. * twitch twitch* I'm almost done, almost done, almost done ....”

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  • “I look forward to each and every excruciating minute of the next four cigarette free-hours. * twitch twitch* Yes, indeed. previous -- next”

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  • “And there's a whole bunch of other stuff that -- * twitch twitch* ohmygod THE CLEANING HAS COME UPON ME AGAIN!!”

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  • “Of course, that, and what I do today are technically "Stuff that should have happened during moving" so maybe it's ok. * twitch twitch* I'm fine.”

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  • “I liked the word twitch, but I felt really bad about it," he says.”

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  • “By the way, "twitch" is my word for the last 2 weeks.”

    Enough PC-isms that it will make you twitch

  • “A sharp twitch is all it takes, and by rolling it, you can better expose the sides of the lure to maximize the flash it gives off.”

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  • “Naldo had fought in the Battle of Britain, ending up with what was commonly called the twitch '.”

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  • “The main one I hear that just makes me twitch is one that claims that such-and-such a company is "a family company.”

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  • harveymilk Twitch has also come to have a slang meaning-- it is used as a noun variant of "bitch"-- for a "bitch" who is on twitter-- hence a "twitch". Jun 8, 2009

  • rolig see couch grass Jul 24, 2008

  • oroboros TwItCh Apr 22, 2008

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