<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a sudden, sharp pain.</li><li>a piercing pain in the abdomen.</li><li>a mental or emotional pang: a twinge of guilt; twinges of sorrow.</li><li>an intermittent, painful contraction of structures of a wall containing involuntary muscle, as in biliary colic or in the uterine contractions of menstruation or of labor.</li><li>writer's cramp.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to affect (the body or mind) with a sudden, sharp pain or pang.</li><li>to pinch; tweak; twitch.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to have or feel a sudden, sharp pain.</li></ul>