Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who lurks.

    Beobachter, Lauerer

  2. (Internet)A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute.

    Lurker, passiver Zuschauer, Beobachter

  3. (UK, archaic, dialectal)A small fishing-boat.

  4. (UK, obsolete, slang)An impostor; a quack.

More definitions
  • someone waiting in concealment

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
someone who lurks:
user who observes rather than participates:

Origin

From lurk + -er, agent suffix.

From lurk + -er, agent suffix.

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Forms

plural: lurkers
Singularlurker
Plurallurkers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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