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lurch

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lurch
Cribbage the state of a losing player with less than 30 points at the end of a game (esp in the phrase in the lurch)
Lurch
Addams’s zombielike, extremely tall butler. [TV: “The Addams Family” in Terrace, I, 29]
See : Butler
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I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the HISPANIOLA, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Soon a venerable fossil, shawled to the chin and bandaged like a mummy, appeared at the door of the after deck-house, and the next lurch of the ship shot him into my arms.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Thus was Master Middle left in the lurch "for the great shot to pay.
Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context
 
 
 
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