Dictionary Definition
lurk
Verb
1 lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky
and secretive manner [syn: skulk]
2 be about; "The high school students like to
loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging
around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around,
mess
about, tarry, linger, mill about,
mill
around]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)k
Verb
Translations
to view an internet forum without posting
comments
Noun
- 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.
- 1921: George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon
Extensive Definition
Lurk may refer to:
- A Lurker
- Lurk (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Lurk, a deliberate misspelling of "look."
- A Myrddraal
- Another name for vampires in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off comic Fray.
- A famous group of kids from the city of Fountain Valley