Lurch may refer to:
Entertainment
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Lurch (''The Addams Family''), fictional butler in the 1960s American television series
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Lurch McDuck, fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story
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''Lurch'' (EP), released in 1990 by Steel Pole Bath Tub
Games
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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
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Björn Andersson (handballer)
Björn "Lurch" Andersson (born 5 July 1950) is a Swedish former handball player who played all his active years in IF Saab in Linköping. He won the Swedish championship in 1973 and , 1974 with the club. He was topscorer in the Swedish league i ...
(born 1950), Swedish former handball player
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Gene Brabender
Eugene Mathew Brabender (August 16, 1941 – December 27, 1996), nicknamed "Lurch", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent before the 1961 season. He also was a member of ...
(1941-1996), American Major League Baseball pitcher
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Barry Goodingham (born 1945), former Australian rules footballer
*Robert Jackson, musician with the band
New Birth
To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelical Christianity, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is d ...
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John O'Neill (rugby league) (1943-1999), Australian rugby league player
Other uses
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Jerk (physics)
Jerk (also known as jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol and expressed in m/s3 (SI units) or standard gra ...
, also known as lurch, the rate of change of acceleration
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Lurch, an Ankole-Watusi steer holding world record for horn circumference
See also
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Big Lurch (born 1976), rapper and convicted murderer and cannibal
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