Sekirov Dictionary

lurk

UK /lɜːk/US /lɝk/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 5

verb5

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To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- Things lurking in the dark / They like to leave a mark / Inside of you — 2024
•
To remain unobserved.
- But in time pressure ... Sammy played 40 QxPch????, thinking it was mate- he completely forgot about that Black Bishop lurking innocently at the other end of the board. — 1973
•
To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument — 2005
(Internet) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
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(UK, slang) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
- As junior dogsbody, he was lurked with this mission. — 2015

noun2

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The act of lurking.
- At two p.m. 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. — 1873
(slang, no longer used) A swindle.

forms

lurked · lurking · lurketh · lurks · lurkest

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