# Lurch

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'''Lurch''' may refer to:
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==Entertainment==
*[Lurch (''The Addams Family'')](/source/Lurch_(The_Addams_Family)), fictional butler in the 1960s American television series
*[Lurch McDuck](/source/List_of_members_of_the_Clan_McDuck), fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story
*[''Lurch'' (EP)](/source/Lurch_(EP)), released in 1990 by Steel Pole Bath Tub

== Games ==
*[Lurch (cards)](/source/Lurch_(cards)), in card games like Cribbage when a player or team loses with a particularly low score
*a synonym for [Lourche](/source/Lourche), a lost 17th century French board game, surviving only in the phrase "left in the lurch"

==Nickname==
*[Björn Andersson (handballer)](/source/Bj%C3%B6rn_Andersson_(handballer)) (born 1950), Swedish former handball player
*[Gene Brabender](/source/Gene_Brabender) (1941-1996), American Major League Baseball pitcher
*[Barry Goodingham](/source/Barry_Goodingham) (born 1945), former Australian rules footballer
*Robert Jackson, musician with the band [New Birth](/source/New_Birth_(band))
*[John O'Neill (rugby league)](/source/John_O'Neill_(rugby_league)) (1943-1999), Australian rugby league player

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

==See also==
*[Big Lurch](/source/Big_Lurch) (born 1976), rapper and convicted murderer and cannibal

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