Definition of "twang" []

• To emit a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument does when it is plucked. (verb-intransitive)
• To resound with a sharp, vibrating sound. (verb-intransitive)
• To speak in a strongly nasal tone of voice. (verb-intransitive)
• To cause to make a sharp, vibrating sound: twanged the car antenna. (verb-transitive)
• To utter with a strongly nasal tone of voice. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'Anna claims she has had no plastic surgery; we have the evidence that everything about her but her trademark Texas country twang is manufactured - breasts, lips, weight loss.'"
• "She could distinguish, she said, a Northern twang from a Southern drawl, and she knew a great deal from vibrations, and also from her sense of smell, she could tell when a storm was coming."
• "It’ll be interesting to see how many affectations (e.g. loves of guns and NASCAR and a mountain twang) he’ll put on over the next year …."