Usually means: Involuntary, sudden muscle contraction; streaming.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. twitch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. twitch, twitch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. twitch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. twitch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. twitch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Twitch, twitch: Wordnik
  7. twitch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Twitch, twitch: Wiktionary
  9. twitch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. twitch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. twitch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. twitch: Dictionary.com
  13. twitch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. twitch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Twitch (Aldo Nova album), Twitch (EP), Twitch (Ministry album), Twitch (Toy Story), Twitch (company), Twitch (device), Twitch (film), Twitch (service), Twitch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Twitch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. twitch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. twitch: Rhymezone
  19. twitch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. twitch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. twitch: Free Dictionary
  22. twitch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. twitch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twitch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Twitch: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  5. twitch: Medical dictionary
  6. Twitch: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. twitch, twitch, twitch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. twitch: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See twitched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
noun:  (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
noun:  (farriery) 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.
noun:  (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
noun:  (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
noun:  (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
verb:  (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
verb:  (obsolete) To exert oneself.
verb:  (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
noun:  couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
noun:  A live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming.

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