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
*
Stretch (nickname), a list
In 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 is ...
, 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 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
Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup, founded by Mike Portnoy, then Dream Theater's drummer, in 1997. The band has released two albums through Magna Carta Records. A third album, with the abs ...
'', 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, 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
''All in the Family'' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. Afterwards, it was continued with the spin-off series '' Archie Bunker's Place'', which picked up where ''All in ...
''
*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, th ...
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 ...
*
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 t ...
, 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
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)
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Stritch (disambiguation)
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