teched

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of tech.

   The champion teched the throw on reaction, and the crowd roared.

   By the third round he had teched so many grabs that his opponent stopped trying them.

   Note

   Fighting-game players use the verb for performing a technical, the special move that cancels out an opposing attack, and it inflects regularly: the simple past (he teched the grab) and the participle after have (she had teched every throw) share one spelling. The same letters also spell a variant of tetched, an unrelated adjective, so the game context is what tells a reader which word is meant.

2. 2
   adjectivecolloquialUS

   Alternative form of tetched.

   Some folks in town figured the old hermit was teched in the head.

   Uncle Ray got a little teched after the accident, but he never forgot a birthday.

   Note

   Colloquial American speech uses it, like tetched, as a version of touched. It usually means a little unhinged, as in teched in the head, though it can also mean simply handled or struck. It compares with more and most rather than -er and -est, and it is unrelated to the fighting-game verb that shares the spelling.

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