'Lurch' definitions:
Definition of 'lurch'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
noun
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" [syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]
noun
The act of moving forward suddenly [syn: lurch, lunge]
verb
Walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen]
verb
verb
Move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road"
verb
Loiter about, with no apparent aim [syn: prowl, lurch]
verb
Defeat by a lurch [syn: lurch, skunk]
Definition of 'Lurch'
From: GCIDE
- Lurch \Lurch\, v. t.
- 1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lurch'
From: GCIDE
- Lurch \Lurch\, v. i. [L. lurcare, lurcari.] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lurch'
From: GCIDE
- Lurch \Lurch\, n. [Cf. W. llerch, llerc, a frisk, a frisking backward or forward, a loitering, a lurking, a lurking, llercian, llerciaw, to be idle, to frisk; or perh. fr. E. lurch to lurk.] 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lurch'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. [1913 Webster]
- Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
- To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lurch'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Lurch'
From: GCIDE
- Lurch \Lurch\, v. i. [A variant of lurk.]
- 1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks. [1913 Webster]
- I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lurch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- amble,
- barge,
- bend,
- bent,
- bias,
- blunder,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bowl along,
- bumble,
- bundle,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- clump,
- coggle,
- come a cropper,
- crook,
- dangle,
- desert,
- disposition,
- drag,
- droop,
- drop,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- falter,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- foot,
- footslog,
- forsake,
- gait,
- gallop,
- get a cropper,
- halt,
- heave,
- heel,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hobbyhorse,
- hop,
- inclination,
- jilt,
- jog,
- jolt,
- jump,
- labor,
- librate,
- limp,
- list,
- lock step,
- lug,
- lumber,
- lunge,
- make heavy weather,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- pace,
- paddle,
- peg,
- penchant,
- pendulate,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- pitch and toss,
- plod,
- plunge,
- pound,
- prance,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- proclivity,
- propensity,
- rack,
- rear,
- reel,
- resonate,
- rock,
- roll,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scend,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- seethe,
- shake,
- shamble,
- sheer,
- shuffle,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- skew,
- skip,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- slue,
- snap,
- snapper,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stagger,
- stalk,
- stammer,
- stamp,
- step,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- struggle,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- swag,
- swagger,
- sway,
- swerve,
- swing,
- swinging,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- tendency,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- tilter,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- traipse,
- tread,
- trip,
- trot,
- trudge,
- tumble,
- turn,
- turn turtle,
- twist,
- twitch,
- vacillate,
- veer,
- vellicate,
- velocity,
- vibrate,
- volutation,
- waddle,
- wag,
- waggle,
- walk,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wamble,
- warp,
- wave,
- waver,
- weave,
- welter,
- whirl,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- yank,
- yaw