Definitions for lurk

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IPA: /lɜrk/

Lurk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in lurk (klru).

Definitions for lurk

noun

1. an underhand scheme; dodge.
2. an easy, somewhat lazy or unethical way of earning a living, performing a task, etc.
3. a hideout.

verb (used without object)

1. to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
2. to go furtively; slink; steal.
3. to exist unperceived or unsuspected.
4. Chiefly Computers. to read or observe an ongoing discussion without participating in it, as on a message board.

Origin of lurk

1250-1300; Middle English lurken, frequentative of lower²; compare Norwegian lurka to sneak away

Examples for lurk

A silly etymology—from lateo, to lurk; mentioned also by Virgil.

Danger seemed to lurk around every corner, but no one expected it to lurk in our classrooms.

Go soothingly on the grease-mud, as there lurk the skid-demon.

In fact, Lew has a well-deserved reputation for homing in on the values that lurk behind the numbers.

The poet speaks to us of one thing, but in this one thing there seems to lurk the secret of all.

Danger and hurt and death did not lurk everywhere about him.

A dreadful order seemed to lurk in the darkest shadows of life.

Discounting the occasional outbreak among bushmeat hunters, Ebola seems content to lurk.

Finally, and most importantly, F. Murray Abraham will continue to lurk in the shadows, looking mysterious and bald.

Post-war Iraq is unfortunately a fitting example for the reality that might lurk behind one-state visions.