lurch

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1. lurch - Noun

2. lurch - Verb

Meaning

To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

To leave in the lurch; to cheat.

To steal; to rob.

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.

To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.

To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.

To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

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I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere – cooking is the neatest thing I do. Nigella Lawson

I was twenty-one and without God. I had no one to love me and no one for me to love. Since there was no after-life, what then did it matter? I leaned forward, ready to lurch to my doom. Oscar Zeta Acosta

Field Marshal Model was a peerless master of the large-scale defensive battle. Always present himself at critical points, he asked a great deal of his troops. Often he was harsh, sometimes ruthless. But he always found the answer to the trickiest of situations, never leaving his men in the lurch. Walter Model

I was understandably deeply disappointed that the highest National Socialist leaders did not stand up and answer for the deeds they had done in the past and left those of us who could not be made personally responsible in the lurch. Karl Wolff

I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one. Bella Freud

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. Alan Rickman

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