Definition of Lurch
Verb: lurch lurch
- Walk as if unable to control one's movements
"The drunken man lurched into the room";
- stagger, reel, keel, swag, careen
- Move abruptly
"The ship suddenly lurched to the left";
- pitch, shift
- Move slowly and unsteadily
"The truck lurched down the road"
- Loiter about, with no apparent aim
- prowl
- (card game) defeat by a lurch
- skunk
- An unsteady uneven gait
- stumble, stagger
- A decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
- Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
"the lurch and tossing was quite exciting";
- pitch, pitching
- The act of moving forward suddenly
- lunge
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