lurk

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: lɜːk
• (US) IPA: lɝk
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)k

[edit] Verb

to lurk (third-person singular simple present lurks, present participle lurking, simple past and past participle lurked)

1. to hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 235c.

     if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument

2. (Internet) to view an internet forum without posting comments

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[edit] Noun

lurk (plural lurks)

1. The act of lurking.
   • 1921: George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon

     There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him.

   • 1955: John Maxwell Edmonds Longus, Daphnis et Chloe

     ... barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the lurk because of the sudden consternation, ...

   • 2004: Charles Reade, A Simpleton

     At two PM a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk.