lurk

slang To peruse or frequent an online community, such as a forum, message board, or comment section, without leaving a comment or post of one's own. I've been lurking on this site since the early 2000s, but recently I've felt motivated to contribute some of my own writing. There are a vocal minority on here who will shout down dissenting opinions, but I think most of the people lurking on our site are actually pretty tolerant and reasonable.

lurk around

To move or hang about (some place) in a suspicious, sneaking, or slinking manner. I had this horrible feeling someone was lurking around outside our house, so I called the police. This is the second time this month I've seen that guy lurking around—does anyone know who he is?

lurk around

to slink or sneak around somewhere. Who is that guy lurking around the building? Stop lurking around.

lurk

in. to read computer newsgroups or forums without ever making a comment. I’ve been lurking for a few weeks but just have to get in a few comments.

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References in periodicals archive

The following sections contain a short discussion of lurking and an introduction to the notion of the conceptual persona.

The Lurker and the Politics of Knowledge in Data Culture

Also on the bright side I saw entrepreneurial owners and operators moving to take advantage of the new long-term care trends, master the various creatures lurking about, and create new and flourishing businesses in the age-old profession of caring.

A head-spinning peek into the future

Pollan's positions are shaped by his exquisitely refined political and gastronomical sensibilities, to be sure, but a huge aesthetic component seems to be lurking beneath the surface, mostly unacknowledged by Pollan himself.

How the upper crust eats: food as a status symbol

According to Bob Baer, the agent who was the model for George Clooney's character in Syriana: "You can't pick up an asset with three cars." Can't you see the potential Iraqi recruit lurking furtively in a doorway, praying his neighbors won't see that he's meeting an American, only to have the CIA's three-car convoy roar down the road and screech to a halt right in front of him?

Ahmet, your convoy is here

The voice represents one of the many identity thieves lurking on the Internet.

Political cartoon

This one's their thickest issue yet, including the KOTR rendezvous at Louisville and random skating and lurking centered around the Bay Area.

Maine-iacs Part 2, and Lowcard, #10

The authors report, "A New York Poison Control Center study found 85 percent of product warning labels to be inadequate" suggesting how ill-informed we are about the toxins lurking in everyday cleaning products.

Healthy cleaning

Shoppers will come face to face with the hidden horrors lurking in our homes at a germ roadshow.

Home horrors show

YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S LURKING IN THE SHADOWS WATCHING, WAITING PATIENTLY FOR AN UNGUARDED MOMENT.

Lock program for security

The skater tries to destroy the abnormal cells while dodging lurking monster.

Cancer champ

But I think it appealed to the megalomania lurking in the recesses of most architects' psyches.

Whatever happened to Paolo?

At the same time, new levels of network intelligence are arriving in the storage network and revealing the areas of congestion lurking in every SAN.

Consolidate storage without losing control

Many's the time I've been working hard at my PC only to glance down at the keyboard and see remnants of the morning's croissant and coffee breakfast lurking bug-like in the crevices between the keys.

Attain CoolOne

Frances Caplan, the RMU Library Director, met with Vincent for a short brainstorming session and the Lurking Librarian idea was hatched.

The lurking librarian project

Writing in the September/October American Spectator, Jeremy Rabkin, a professor of government at Cornell, highlighted a constitutional "iceberg" lurking in a footnote to a recent Supreme Court decision.

Globalizing the Supreme Court. (Insider Report)