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  • noun Plural form of lurcher.

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Examples

  • It has to be said that the lurchers were the best behaved of the lot, though I fear for their street cred if seen in the fields around here wearing those brightly coloured beaded and embroidered designer collars.

    Compulsory people watching 2007

  • It has to be said that the lurchers were the best behaved of the lot, though I fear for their street cred if seen in the fields around here wearing those brightly coloured beaded and embroidered designer collars.

    Compulsory people watching 2007

  • It has to be said that the lurchers were the best behaved of the lot, though I fear for their street cred if seen in the fields around here wearing those brightly coloured beaded and embroidered designer collars.

    42 entries from November 2007 2007

  • There is little doubt that they are the descendants of the dogs which the ancients called lurchers, crossed, perhaps, with the greyhound, and possibly other breeds.

    After London Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1867

  • But the dogs called lurchers nowadays are mostly of degenerate and impure breed; still, even these are capable of a good deal.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The officers located near them were willing to purchase their petty farms: thus the small holdings were bought up, [166] and the estates of the greater landholders were cleared of "lurchers," who preyed on their flocks. [

    The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840

  • And to wonder to whom those lurchers, which seem to come daily into the land at the back of the Jowell-Mills farm and clean out all those lovely fluffy bunnies, actually belong.

    Archive 2008-03-23 2008

  • And to wonder to whom those lurchers, which seem to come daily into the land at the back of the Jowell-Mills farm and clean out all those lovely fluffy bunnies, actually belong.

    A Gypsy Fiddle Which Is Not Exactly Music To Jowell’s Ears 2008

  • Generally speaking, our zombies so far seem to be lurchers, dead-eyed and flesh-hungry travelers who can't crank their speeds up much above 1 mph.

    'Walking Dead' episode two: Five questions about 'Guts' Jen Chaney 2010

  • What with the lurchers and all, that would be one noisy hammock.

    Compulsion | Meg Rosoff 2010

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