To pull or draw with a hasty jerk; snatch; jerk away.To give a short, sudden pull or tug at; jerk at; cause to move quickly or spasmodically.To nip; squeeze; make fast; tie tightly.To be suddenly jerked; move or contract quickly or spasmodically, as a muscle.To carp; sneer; make flings. Compare jerk, intransitive verb, 2.n. A short, sharp pull or tug; a jerk or snatch.n. A short, spastic contraction of the fibers of muscles; a stitch; a twinge: as, a twitch in the side; convulsive twitches; especially, such a movement when causing pain: sometimes applied to moral pangs.n. A pair of nippers or tweezers.n. A noose attached to a stock or handle and twisted around the upper lip of a horse so as to bring him under command when shoeing or clipping: an instrument used for holding a vicious horse.n. In mining, a sudden narrowing of a vein so that the walls come nearly or quite together.A dialectal variant of touch.n. The quitch or quitch-grass, Agropyrum repens.