- draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- wince: a reflex response to sudden pain
- Flinch is glam rock band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2003. The first CD was “Tuulet”. It arrived third in the Finnish hit parade staying there for some weeks.
- Flinch is a card game, played with a custom deck, invented in 1901 by A.J. Patterson. This deck has 150 cards, consisting of ten sets numbered from one to fifteen. Some variations use a 144-card deck. It is based on "Spite and Malice".
- Flinch was a Vertigo Comics horror anthology.
- "Flinch" is a pop rock song written by Alanis Morissette, and produced by her for her sixth album, Under Rug Swept (2002).
- A reflexive jerking away; To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus
- (Flinching) Moving bow arm and/or drawing hand just before release.
- a) an involuntary muscular contraction usually resulting in jerking the gun just as it is fired, with a missed target resulting. b) inability to bend the finger to pull the trigger at all. The shooter is scored with a lost target.
- vacilar; acobardarse; retroceder; estremecerse
- 1 (DC/Vertigo, 1999). Lee drew an 8-page short story, where works in a new and more "clear" style, that later was used in the flasbacks scenes in his Batman: Hush storyline.