Definitions for lurks

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Spelling: [lurk]

IPA: /lɜrk/

Lurks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in lurks (klrsu).

Definitions for lurks

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 lurks

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

Examples for lurks

Again a brilliant movie taking a hold of the myth that lurks around us all the time.

The Shadow which lurks in every bridal lamp had become the Spectre of the bedchamber.

I have tried to show the real danger that lurks in every form of sex-parasitism.

The last six months have been a stark reminder of the brutality that lurks at the boundaries of civilized society.

It is a danger that lurks and hides in the sources and fountains of power in every state.

That insight alone should make us aware of what lurks beneath all our anxieties, sexual dread included.

Perhaps Earhart, or her plane, lurks in this spooky atmosphere.

But there lurks no bribe in the smell and beauty of the flower.

But it turns out that just 63 light years away, there lurks a similarly colored planet.

But in each of us there lurks some particle of the mob spirit, of the mob temperament.