Glitch Definition

glĭch
glitches
noun
glitches
A mishap, error, malfunctioning, etc.
Webster's New World
A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power.
American Heritage
A sudden, brief change in the period of a pulsar, believed to be caused by sudden changes in the structure of the rotating star.
Webster's New World

(video games) A bug or an exploit.

Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
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(music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.

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verb

To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.

My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
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(video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.
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Other Word Forms of Glitch

Noun

Singular:
glitch
Plural:
glitches

Origin of Glitch

  • Probably from Yiddish glitsh a slip, lapse from glitshn to slip from Middle High German glitschen alteration of glīten to glide from Old High German glītan ghel-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsch), from dialectical German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Popularized 1960s, by US space program. Attested 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

    From Wiktionary

Glitch Sentence Examples

  • Don't worry - this is probably a temporary glitch.

  • The glitch will cost a lot of health and kill your player if you do not have enough.

  • Maybe it's a glitch or something, but it worked.

  • A computer glitch can result in delays several miles long.

  • There is a slight glitch when the computer cuts to a different camera angle and has to retrack the rhythm of the characters to the music.

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Words Starting With

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