glitch
noun
[ ɡlɪtʃ ]
• a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment.
• "a draft version was lost in a computer glitch"
glitch
verb
• suffer a sudden malfunction or fault.
• "the elevators glitched"
Origin:
1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a sudden surge of current’, hence ‘malfunction, hitch’ in astronautical slang.
