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noun 
  1. The act of lurking.
    • 1921: George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon
    • :There were enemies on the and time was against him.
    • 1955: John Maxwell Edmonds Longus, Daphnis et Chloe
    • : ... barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the because of the sudden consternation, ...
    • 2004: Charles Reade, A Simpleton
    • :At two PM 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 .
verb 
  1. to hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself
    • 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 235c.
    • : if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument
      1. (internet) to view an internet forum without posting comments
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