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lutz¹

  • /lʌts/
  • /lʊts/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌts

Where it comes from

From the surname of Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who invented the jump.

noun lutzes

  1. A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate. Meissner fell three times, on two triple lutzes and a triple flip, to drop from fourth, the worst performance by a defending champion in at least 50 years.

lutz²

  • /lʌts/
  • /lʊts/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌts

noun lutzes

  1. A kind of marble (spherical toy) with bands of copper or goldstone flakes.

Lutz³

  • /lʌts/

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Lutz.

proper noun Lutzes

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from German.
  2. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: salchow, layback, twizzle, lobe, underpush, quersprung, transition, slap-back, turn stop, full, figure skating, gelandesprung, down start, lipslide, outside edge, punch front

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noun in figure skating, a type of jump

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"lutz." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lutz. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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lutz. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lutz

Chicago

"lutz." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lutz.

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@misc{lutz_2026,
  title = {lutz},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lutz},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}