Lurk

/lɜːk/ · verb

Meaning

To remain concealed in order to ambush..

Definitions by Sense

1. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
2. To remain unobserved.
3. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
4. (Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
5. (UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
6. The act of lurking.
7. (UK, Australia, slang, obsolete) A swindle.

Example Sentences

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

Things lurking in the dark / They like to leave a mark / Inside of you

Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.

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.

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

As junior dogsbody, he was lurked with this mission.

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.

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

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• lurks
• lurking
• lurked

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