What does lurker mean?
Lurker means One who lurks..
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈlɜː.kə/ · noun
One who lurks..
It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?
However, less than half of lurkers went online that often. Those who post also are more likely than lurkers to use the Internet for both work and pleasure. Posters use the Internet to communicate more with others than lurkers do.
It’s not unusual for people to join video calls with their camera off and microphone muted, but such lurkers can at least be called upon to speak.
In every large town sham official documents, with crests, seals, and signatures, can be got for half-a-crown. Armed with these, the patterer becomes a ‘lurker,’—that is, an impostor; his papers certify any and every ‘ill that flesh is heir to.’
Use lurker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lurker means One who lurks..
Common synonyms include skulker, lurcher.
Possible antonyms include poster.
It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.