Cryptic crossword clue
Fault of girl’s heartless longing 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GLITCH

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What does GLITCH mean?

GLITCH noun
  1. A problem affecting function.
  2. An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
  3. A bug or an exploit.
  4. A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
GLITCH verb
  1. (especially of machines) To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.
  2. To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

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