Usually means: Observe secretly without participating actively.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word lurk:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lurk: Merriam-Webster
  3. lurk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lurk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lurk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lurk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lurk, lurk: Wordnik
  8. lurk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lurk: Wiktionary
  10. lurk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lurk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lurk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lurk, lurk: Dictionary.com
  14. lurk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lurk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lurk (TV series), Lurk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lurk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lurk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lurk: Rhymezone
  20. lurk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lurk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lurk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lurk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lurk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurk: Legal dictionary

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurk: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lurk: Netlingo
  3. lurk: CCI Computer
  4. lurk: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. Lurk (Gaia Online), Lurk (internet forums), lurk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurk: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurk, lurk, lurk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See lurked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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