0 present participle of lurch
1 to move in a way that is not regular or normal, especially making sudden movements backwards or forwards or from side to side:
At other moments their response to a situation seemed best reflected in a seesaw action, one actor lurching forward, another recoiling.
It was this which drove the lurching, unpredictable violence of the early colonial state.
So this lurching back and forth between expectational types can be rather unstable.
We are locked into the old lurching process of stop-go.
Giving parents more choice—is that lurching to the right?
No one wishes to see authorities lurching from one crisis to the next.
If that is true, we shall have a violently lurching economy all the time.
That kind of lurching—stop and go—has not allowed the long-term investment that everyone wants in the public services.