Usually means: Sudden, sharp, localized pain sensation.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. twinge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twinge: Merriam-Webster
  3. twinge, twinge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twinge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twinge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twinge: Vocabulary.com
  7. twinge: Wordnik
  8. twinge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. twinge: Wiktionary
  10. twinge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twinge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twinge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twinge: Dictionary.com
  14. twinge (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twinge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TWINGE: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twinge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twinge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twinge: Rhymezone
  20. twinge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twinge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. twinge: FreeDictionary.org
  23. twinge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. twinge: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. twinge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. twinge: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. twinge: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twinge: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See twinged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch.
verb:  (obsolete except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete)
verb:  (except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist (someone or something); to pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring.
verb:  To affect or torment (someone, their mind, or part of their body) with one or more sudden, pinching or sharp pains; to irritate.
verb:  (figurative) To prick or stimulate (one's conscience).
noun:  A sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, especially one lasting for a short time.
noun:  (rare, also figurative) A turn, a twist.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A sudden, sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of guilt or sadness; a pang, a paroxysm, a throe; also, a prick of the conscience.
noun:  A sudden, sharp occurrence of something; a nip.
noun:  (UK, dialectal) Synonym of earwig (“insect of the order Dermaptera”)
noun:  (obsolete) An act of pulling and twisting; a pinch, a tweak, a twitch.

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