Usually means: Hides secretly, often with intent.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurks: Merriam-Webster
  2. lurks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lurks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lurks, lurks: Wordnik
  5. lurks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lurks: Wiktionary
  7. lurks: Dictionary.com
  8. lurks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. lurks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lurks: Legal dictionary

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  1. lurks: Encyclopedia

(Note: See lurk as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lurk)

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:  (Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
verb:  (UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
noun:  The act of lurking.
noun:  (obsolete) A swindle.
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