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 ...
, a list of people
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Stretch (nickname) Stretch is a nickname of:
People
* Stretch Johnson (1915–2002), American tap dancer and social activist
* Seantavius Jones (born 1992), American football player
* Stretch Kontelj (born 1961), Australian politician
* Alvin Martin (born 1958), ...
, a list
In music
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Stretch Records, an independent record label
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Stretch (band), a 1970s UK rock band
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Stretch (rapper)
Randy Walker (August 21, 1968 – November 30, 1995), of the 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. The November 30, 1994, shooting of Shak ...
(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'', 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 introduced in 1976 by Kenner. In 2016, at the New York Toy Fair, Hasbro announced the return of the Stretch Armstrong toy in its original 1976 design.
Stretch Armstrong is m ...
, 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 Weekly'' #637 (cover-dated January 1989). It was created by Bob Rozakis and Stephen DeStefano.
History
Hero Hotline is a corporate 24/7 hero for hire company ...
*Stretch Cunningham, a recurring character in the TV series ''
All in the Family''
*Stretch Emerson, a character created by Australian western writer
Leonard Frank Meares
Leonard Frank Meares (13 February 1921 – 4 February 1993) was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700http://www.benbridges.co.uk/riders3.html LEONARD F MEARES – THE MAN THEY CALLED MARSHALL GROVER Westerns for the Australian ...
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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
''Handy Manny'' is a CGI-animated children's television series that premiered with its first two episodes consecutively on Saturday, September 16, 2006, originally as part of Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block. On Valentine's Day 2011, the ...
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 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 from the set.
Defi ...
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.
A very long wheelbase luxury sedan (with more than four doors) driven by a prof ...
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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 Stretch Island is an island in Case Inlet in the southern part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It forms part of the unincorporated Mason County community of Allyn-Grapeview. The island has a land area of 1.2179 km2 (300.95 ac ...
, 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
Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played using pocketknives. The term "mumblety-peg" came from the practice of putting a peg of about 2 or 3 inches into the g ...
See also
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Stretching (disambiguation)
Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle is deliberately elongated to its fullest length.
Stretching may also refer to:
* Canvas stretching, the lengthening of a canvas by pulling
* Scaling (geometry) in one ...
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Stritch (disambiguation) Stritch may refer to:
* Stritch (saxophone), musical instrument
* Samuel Stritch (1887–1958), American cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church
** Cardinal Stritch High School, Oregon, Ohio, named after him
** Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, ...
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