Usually means: Recoil suddenly from fear, pain.
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  1. flinch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flinch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flinch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flinch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flinch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flinch, flinch: Wordnik
  7. flinch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flinch: Wiktionary
  9. flinch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flinch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flinch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flinch, flinch: Dictionary.com
  13. flinch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flinch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flinch (band), Flinch (card game), Flinch (comics), Flinch (game show), Flinch (song), Flinch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flinch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flinch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flinch: Rhymezone
  19. flinch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flinch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flinch: Free Dictionary
  22. flinch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flinch: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. flinch: Encyclopedia

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  1. flinch: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A reflexive jerking away.
noun:  (croquet) The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
verb:  To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
verb:  (croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
verb:  Alternative form of flense [To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.]

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