Stretch can refer to:
People
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Stretch (surname) Stretch is the surname of:
*Bill Stretch (born 1935), Australian former politician
*Billy Stretch (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
*C.J. Stretch (born 1989), American ice hockey player
*Charles Lennox Stretch (1797–1882), South African po ...
, a list of people
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Stretch (nickname), a list
Music
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Stretch Records
Stretch Records is an American record company and label that was established in 1997 by Chick Corea and music industry veteran Ron Moss.
The label claims to promote "music with no boundaries", although it has mostly released jazz music. Corea was ...
, an independent record label
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Stretch (band)
Stretch were a 1970s British rock band that grew from the collaboration between vocalist Elmer Gantry (real name Dave Terry) and guitarist Kirby Gregory (real name Graham Gregory). Gantry had been the frontman of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, a ...
, a 1970s UK rock band
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Stretch (rapper)
Randy Walker (August 21, 1968 – November 30, 1995), better known by his stage name Stretch, was an American rapper and record producer, working in Live Squad. In the early 1990s, he joined 2Pac's rap group Thug Life (band), Thug Life. The Tupac ...
(1968–1995), an American rapper and producer
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''Stretch'' (album), an album by Scott Walker
* "The Stretch", a song by Liquid Tension Experiment from the album ''
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup founded by Mike Portnoy in 1997. The band initially released two albums, between 1998 and 1999. An extension of their second regular album, with the abse ...
'', 1998
Films
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''Stretch'' (2011 film), a French film directed by Charles de Meaux
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''Stretch'' (2014 film), an American film directed by Joe Carnahan
Fictional characters
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Stretch Armstrong
Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure that was first sold in 1976 by Kenner.
It looks like a short muscular man with blond hair wearing black trunks, but can be stretched from its normal size of about to .
The doll is mad ...
, an action figure introduced in 1976
*Stretch, a purple toy octopus in the film ''Toy Story 3'' (see
List of ''Toy Story'' characters)
*Stretch, a member of the DC Comics superteam
Hero Hotline
Hero Hotline is a fictional DC Comics corporate superteam introduced in ''Action Comics, Action Comics Weekly'' #637 (cover-dated January 1989). It was created by Bob Rozakis and Stephen DeStefano.
History
Hero Hotline is a corporate 24/7 hero fo ...
*Stretch Cunningham, a recurring character in the TV series ''
All in the Family
''All in the Family'' is an American sitcoms in the United States, sitcom television series that aired on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. It was later produced as ''Archie Bunker's Pla ...
''
*Stretch Emerson, a character created by Australian western writer
Leonard Frank Meares
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Stretch (''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2''), the sole survivor of ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2''
*Stretch, a tape measure in
Handy Manny
Other uses
*Stretch, the codename of
version 9 of the Debian Linux operating system
*Another name for the "set position", one of two legal
pitching position
In baseball, there are two legal pitch (baseball), pitching positions: the windup, and the set. Colloquially, the set is often referred to as "the stretch", although this term actually only refers to one part of the pitching motion when pitching fr ...
s in baseball
*Another name for a
limousine
A limousine ( or ), or limo () for short, is a large, chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle with a partition between the driver compartment and the passenger compartment which can be operated mechanically by hand or by a button electronically. A luxu ...
*
IBM 7030 Stretch
The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC 6600 became operational in 1964."Designed by Seymour Cray, the CDC 6600 was almost three tim ...
, IBM's first transistorized supercomputer
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Stretch Island, in the U.S. state of Washington
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''The Stretch'' (novel), a thriller by Stephen Leather, published in 2000
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''The Stretch'' (TV series), a British television crime drama mini-series
* A variety of the game
mumblety-peg
See also
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Elongation (disambiguation)
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Stretching (disambiguation)
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Stritch (disambiguation)
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