Usually means: Sudden, unsteady, jerky movement forward.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word lurch:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lurch, lurch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lurch, lurch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lurch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lurch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lurch, lurch: Wordnik
  7. lurch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lurch: Wiktionary
  9. lurch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lurch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lurch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lurch, lurch: Dictionary.com
  13. lurch (1), lurch (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lurch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lurch (EP), Lurch (The Addams Family), Lurch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lurch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lurch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lurch: Rhymezone
  19. lurch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lurch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Lurch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. lurch: Free Dictionary
  23. lurch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lurch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. lurch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. lurch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurch: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LURCH: CCI Computer
  2. lurch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurch: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurch, lurch, lurch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lurch: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lurched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden or unsteady movement.
verb:  To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
verb:  (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
noun:  An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
noun:  A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).

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