Lurch may refer to:
Entertainment
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Lurch (''The Addams Family''), fictional butler in the 1960s American television series
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Lurch McDuck, fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story
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''Lurch'' (EP), released in 1990 by Steel Pole Bath Tub
Games
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Lurch (cards)
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge, Hearts, Poker or Rummy), ...
, in card games like Cribbage when a player or team loses with a particularly low score
*a synonym for
Lourche, a lost 17th century French board game, surviving only in the phrase "left in the lurch"
Nickname
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Björn Andersson (handballer)
Björn "Lurch" Andersson (born 5 July 1950) is a former Swedish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (germa ...
(born 1950), Swedish former handball player
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Gene Brabender
Eugene Mathew Brabender (August 16, 1941 – December 27, 1996), nicknamed Lurch, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent before the 1961 season. He also was a member of the ...
(1941-1996), American Major League Baseball pitcher
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Barry Goodingham
Barry Goodingham (born 9 May 1945) was a regular first ruckman for the North Melbourne Football Club and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Nicknamed ' Lurch', due to his resemblance t ...
(born 1945), former Australian rules footballer
*Robert Jackson, musician with the band
New Birth
Born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and sepa ...
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John O'Neill (rugby league)
John O'Neill (9 May 1943 – 9 August 1999) was an Australian representative rugby league whose club career was spent with South Sydney and Manly-Warringah during the 1960s and early 1970s. He made 2 Test appearances for the Australian natio ...
(1943-1999), Australian rugby league player
Other uses
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Jerk (physics)
In physics, jerk or jolt is the rate at which an object's acceleration changes with respect to time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol and expressed in m/s3 (SI units) or ...
, also known as lurch, the rate of change of acceleration
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Lurch, an Ankole-Watusi steer holding world record for horn circumference
See also
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Big Lurch
Antron Singleton (born September 15, 1976), better known by his stage name Big Lurch, is a convicted murderer, cannibal and former rapper. He is serving a life sentence for murdering 21-year-old roommate Tynisha Ysais and eating parts of her bo ...
(born 1976), rapper and convicted murderer and cannibal
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