Lurch

Lurch may refer to:

Entertainment

 * Lurch (The Addams Family), fictional butler in the 1960s American television series
 * Lurch McDuck, fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story
 * Lurch (EP), released in 1990 by Steel Pole Bath Tub

Games

 * Lurch (cards), in card games like Cribbage when a player or team loses with a particularly low score
 * a synonym for Lourche, a lost 17th century French board game, surviving only in the phrase "left in the lurch"

Nickname

 * Björn Andersson (handballer) (born 1950), Swedish former handball player
 * Gene Brabender (1941-1996), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Barry Goodingham (born 1945), former Australian rules footballer
 * Robert Jackson, musician with the band New Birth
 * John O'Neill (rugby league) (1943-1999), Australian rugby league player

Other uses

 * Jerk (physics), also known as lurch, the rate of change of acceleration
 * Lurch, an Ankole-Watusi steer holding world record for horn circumference