Lurk

What do we mean by lurk?

To wait out of view. intransitive verb

To move furtively; sneak. intransitive verb

To exist unobserved or unsuspected. intransitive verb

To read but not contribute to the discussion in a newsgroup, chatroom, or other online forum. intransitive verb

The act of lurking or prowling. noun

A trick of imposture; a swindling artifice; a cunning dodge. noun

To lie in concealment; hide or keep out of sight, as for ambush or escape; skulk.

To be latent or undisclosed; be withdrawn from open manifestation; exist unperceived or unsuspected.

To lie hidden; to lie in wait. intransitive verb

To keep out of sight. intransitive verb

To remain concealed in order to ambush verb

To remain unobserved verb

To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself verb

To view an internet forum without posting comments verb

The act of lurking. noun

Wait in hiding to attack verb

Be about verb

Lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner verb

The act of lurking.

A swindle.

On a messageboard or anything similar, to browse the board very often, but without ever posting anything. Urban Dictionary

To read without commenting or contributing, therefore effectively invisible to the rest of the group or community. Generally recommended for joining any forum so that you can observe rules, attitudes and prominent personalities without jumping in and breaking a rule, making an ass of yourself, or asking a question about something obvious that you would have learned for yourself if you’d paid attention in the first place. Online equivalent of attentive listening before speaking; potentially the solution to all Internet faux pas. Urban Dictionary

A person who, though standing with a group of "friends," fails to make conversation or say anything of interest. Commonly used as a derogatory term for someone quiet or untalkative. Urban Dictionary

A person who repetitively stalks/ convulsively checks someone's Tweets, Wall, Posts, or blog entries without posting or without the knowledge of the person. Someone who regularly checks someone's social interactions from the safety of their dimly lit room. Urban Dictionary

A vocabulary word that is part of the skateboarding community. It means driving around town looking for potential skateboarding spots. Once you have found something worthwhile, you park your car and get out and skate the spot. Once you're tired of the spot, you get back in the car and continue the lurking process. Best done with friends. It's also worthwhile to note that after months of lurking, lurking becomes decreasingly necessary as you begin to know all of the skatespots of your hometown by memory Urban Dictionary

Watching someone as though you're stalking them, but at a less degree. Urban Dictionary

The act of looking at someones hidden comments on myspace. Urban Dictionary

One who has evolved from the stage of "creepy." aka a graduated creep. this stage may include following, staring, text stalking, showing up places uninvited, spitting creepy game on younger girls...etc. you know...a lurk..... Urban Dictionary

When you look through someones profile, sometimes very repetively. Urban Dictionary

A person who lives on myspace and reads other people's comments and looks at their profile with no style and stands over them trying to talk to them and is just a lurk also she lurker Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to lurk:
lurk.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word lurk:
lurking, shadows, beneath, depths, prey, felix, underneath, anonymous, waiting, corner, surface, dark, waters, background, behind, freedom, outside, every, fish, leaves, find, inside, comes, places, nearby.

Words that rhyme with lurk:
work, network, jerk, framework, perk, clerk, smirk, quirk, berserk, artwork, shirk, teamwork, irk, homework, groundwork, dirk, erk, turk, murk, paperwork, burke, patchwork, woodwork, guesswork, cirque, kirk, clockwork, merc, berk, rework, fieldwork, handiwork, housework, legwork, burk, overwork, schoolwork, firework, merk, casework, earthwork, needlework, birk, footwork, piecework, werk, metalwork, ataturk, masterwork, perc, latticework, beadwork, murch, out of work, spadework, merck, brushwork, klerk, at work, young turk, roadwork, openwork, bank clerk, wide area network, knee jerk, body of work, werke, lerch, social work, piece of work, computer network, communications network, field work, local area network, plasterwork, clean and jerk, clerc, line of work, quirke, soda jerk, room clerk, bourke, waterwork, kurk, desk clerk, file clerk, derk, leclerc, undercover work, detective work, reference work, booking clerk, hotel clerk, sirk, town clerk, bjerke, grand turk, mcgurk, berke, turck.

Adjectives that are often used to describe lurk:
good, evil, long, secret, crystal, past, greater, more, dead, old, human, lightest, merciless, hidden, sudden, individual, big, cruel, female, extraordinary, older, vain, jackal, squirrel, gray, bigger, lest, simple, largest, ague, subtle, dark, deep, dangerous.

Consonant match to lurk:
look, like, lock, lake, lack, luck, leak, lick, lac, leek, luke, lech, loch, lek, locke, lok, luk, leck, luc, lak, lerch, leuc-, leake, lyke, lucke, luque, louk, leuk-, luick, lauck, luecke, leick, laack, laake, leuck, louck, louque.

Words that sound like lurk:
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