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Drink repeatedly over cardiac glitch (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

murmur

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'cardiac glitch' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'drink repeatedly over' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'rum' (rum is a kind of drink).
'repeatedly' becomes 'rum' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'over' is a reversal indicator.
'rum'+'rum'='rumrum'
'rumrum' reversed gives 'MURMUR'.

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(Other definitions for murmur that I've seen before include "Whisper; complain" , "Undertone" , "Speak quietly" , "Soft voices (of discontent)" , "Low continuous sound" .)

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