- a software defect.
- A phrase used only by the media and old people who have no clue what just happened and want to call it something cute.
- a word used to convince the ignorant masses that there is a mysterious conspiracy happening.
- the fastest way to make someone who works in the software development industry cringe like fingernails on the chalkboard.
Poll Worker: Someone kicked the power cable to the electronic voting machine and it stopped working.

Reporter: Today's polling has been plagued by glitches. Prompting further calls for a full federal investigation of voting irregularities.
by Apa000 September 20, 2007
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Used when you experience something that makes you do a double take, such that you have a glitch in your thinking because what you experienced caused you to be dumbfounded. This can be positive or negative.
What the hell is Lady Gaga wearing? She is mad glitch.
Dude is glitchy yo. He is always saying shit that doesn't make sense.
by VectorVictor October 29, 2018
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Name.
1. A synonym of the word bug (in IT)

2. A YouTube channel owned by Luke Lerdwichagul (known as SMG4) and his brother that creates animated shows with some creators of the indie animation genre... Their most successful series pilot is The Amazing Digital Circus (an idea of Gooseworkx name might be wrong and hosted on Glitch).
3. Visual error in a videogame.
Person 1: Did you know that SMG4 made a channel named Glitch?

Person 2: SMG4 did create Glitch?! Cool.
by SlammerGaming0 November 8, 2023
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When you're so shocked you can't move; shook.
Person 1: I was so glitched when Ricegum released that distrack

Person 2: bro I know, I was shook
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Anything that makes life more difficult,
usually something that is itself trivial,
but is necessary for something else to happen.

Who knows where this came from? Lord knows, but he's not telling. Besides, God doesn't do technology.
I like to think its roots are in the words "glue" and "itch".
But of course, we all know it was developed under grant, for use in science organizations prone to error, such as NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the nano-technological field in general, where glitches have been made so small as to appear totally correct and self-repairing.
FROM AN ACTUAL EMAIL:

"Apparently one needs software loaded on the computer to download photos from this digital camera.  If I can get that software, do you think it will be for PCs and Macs?

Little glitches in the road."
by Sue Dohnim June 17, 2004
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A glitch that was a part of iOS 11.1 where when the letter "I" was autocorrected to the letter A and the symbol ⍰.
Me: Hey A⍰ updated to the new iOS software!
Someone else: I think you have The Glitch
by zeatlefan September 25, 2018
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An excuse for when you fuck up and don’t wanna seem like an idiot
My hands were glitching, I couldn’t do my essay
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