{{wiktionary|lurch}} '''Lurch''' may refer to: {{TOC right}} ==Entertainment== *Lurch (''The Addams Family''), fictional butler in the 1960s American television series *Lurch McDuck, fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story *''Lurch'' (EP), released in 1990 by Steel Pole Bath Tub

== Games == *Lurch (cards), 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== *Björn Andersson (handballer) (born 1950), Swedish former handball player *Gene Brabender (1941-1996), American Major League Baseball pitcher *Barry Goodingham (born 1945), former Australian rules footballer *Robert Jackson, musician with the band New Birth *John O'Neill (rugby league) (1943-1999), Australian rugby league player

==Other uses== *Jerk (physics), also known as lurch, the rate of change of acceleration *Lurch, an Ankole-Watusi steer holding world record for horn circumference

==See also== *Big Lurch (born 1976), rapper and convicted murderer and cannibal

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