Lurch
To leave in the lurch. To leave a person in a difficulty. In
cribbage a person is left in the lurch when his adversary has run out
his score of sixty-one holes before he himself has turned the corner
(or pegged his
thirty-first) hole. In cards it is a slam, that is, when one of the
players wins the entire game before his adversary has scored a single
point or won a trick.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Lurch from Fact Monster:
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