stagger, sway, move unsteadily; make a sudden sideways movement, abruptly roll or pitch to one side
staggering, swaying, unsteady motion; sudden sideways movement, abrupt rolling or pitching to one side; defeat in which the winner's score is much greater than the loser's (especially in cribbage)
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Lurch Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To steal; to rob.
To steal; to rob.
(v. t.)
To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
(v. i.)
To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
(v. i.)
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
(v. i.)
To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
(v. i.)
To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
(n.)
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
(n.)
A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
(n.)
A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
lurch
\lurch\, v. i. [a variant of lurk.]
1. to withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
2. to dodge; to shift; to play tricks. i am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.
lurch
\lurch\, n. [of. lourche name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.] 1. an old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
2. a double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
similar words(1)
to leave one in the lurch
Meaning
Left in a difficult position without help.
Origin
Originated with the French game of lourche or lurch, played in the 16th century. Players suffered a lurch if they were left in a hopeless position from which they couldn't win the game. The card game of cribbage, or crib, also has a 'lurch' position which players may be left in if they don't progress half way round the peg board before the winner finishes.
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Origin
Originated with the French game of lourche or lurch, played in the 16th century. Players suffered a lurch if they were left in a hopeless position from which they couldn't win the game. The card game of cribbage, or crib, also has a 'lurch' position which players may be left in if they don't progress half way round the peg board before the winner finishes.
abandon in a time of need
a church
to be "left in the lurch" is to be betrayed by ones companions
Noun
1. an unsteady uneven gait
(synonym) stumble, stagger
(hypernym) gait
(derivation) stagger, reel, keel, swag, careen
2. a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
(hypernym) defeat, licking
(derivation) skunk
3. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
(synonym) pitch, pitching
(hypernym) motion, movement, move, motility
(hyponym) rock, careen, sway, tilt
(derivation) pitch, shift
(classification) ship
4. the act of moving forward suddenly
(synonym) lunge
(hypernym) motion, movement, move
(derivation) pitch, shift
Verb
1. walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
(synonym) stagger, reel, keel, swag, careen
(hypernym) walk
(derivation) stumble, stagger
2. move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
(synonym) pitch, shift
(hypernym) move
(derivation) lunge
3. move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road"
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
4. loiter about, with no apparent aim
(synonym) prowl
(hypernym) loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
5. defeat by a lurch
(synonym) skunk
(hypernym) get the better of, overcome, defeat
(classification) card game, cards
Lurch Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
LURCH is a tool for software design debugging that uses a nondeterministic algorithm to quickly explore the reachable states of a software model. By performing a partial and random search, LURCH looks for faults in the model and reports the pathways leading to the faults.
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Lurch may refer to:
- Lurch (The Addams Family), fictional butler in the 1960s American television series
- Big Lurch (b. 1976), rapper and convicted murderer and cannibal
- LURCH, software tool for debugging
- Lurch McDuck, fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story
- Zombie lurch, public gathering where people dress up as zombies, also known as a Zombie walk
- Lurch, a Ankole-Watusi steer holding world record for horn circumference
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Lurch Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
