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1. Walk as if unable to control one's movements
   "The drunken man lurched into the room";
   - stagger, reel, keel, swag, careen
    
2. Move abruptly
   "The ship suddenly lurched to the left";
   - pitch, shift
    
3. Move slowly and unsteadily
   "The truck lurched down the road"
    
4. Loiter about, with no apparent aim
   - prowl
    
5. (card game) defeat by a lurch
   - skunk [N. Amer, informal]

1. An unsteady uneven gait
   - stumble, stagger
    
2. A decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
    
3. Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
   "the lurch and tossing was quite exciting";
   - pitch, pitching
    
4. The act of moving forward suddenly
   - lunge

Derived forms: lurching, lurches, lurched

Type of: defeat, dillydally [informal], dilly-dally [informal], footle [informal], gait, get the better of, go, hang around, lallygag [N. Amer, informal], licking, linger, loaf [informal], locomote, loiter, lollygag [N. Amer, informal], lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, mooch [Brit, informal], motility, motion, move, movement, overcome, tarry, travel, walk

Encyclopedia: Lurch