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Definition of glitch verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

glitch

verb
 
/ɡlɪtʃ/
 
/ɡlɪtʃ/
(informal) [intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they glitch
 
/ɡlɪtʃ/
 
/ɡlɪtʃ/
he / she / it glitches
 
/ˈɡlɪtʃɪz/
 
/ˈɡlɪtʃɪz/
past simple glitched
 
/ɡlɪtʃt/
 
/ɡlɪtʃt/
past participle glitched
 
/ɡlɪtʃt/
 
/ɡlɪtʃt/
-ing form glitching
 
/ˈɡlɪtʃɪŋ/
 
/ˈɡlɪtʃɪŋ/
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  1. (of a machine or system) to suffer a sudden fault and fail to work correctly
    • The screen glitched.
    • The instrument panel began glitching back in March.
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2
    Word Origin1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a sudden surge of current’, hence ‘malfunction, hitch’ in astronautical slang.

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