Crossword clues for lurker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lurker \Lurk"er\, n.
One who lurks.
A small fishing boat. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who lurks," early 14c., agent noun from lurk (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of lurk; one who lurks. 2 # (context Internet English) 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. 3 (context archaic UK dialect English) A small fishing-boat.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community or PLN who observes, but does not actively participate. The exact definition depends on context. Lurkers make up a large proportion of all users in online communities. Lurking allows users to learn the conventions of an online community before they actively participate, improving their socialization when they eventually de-lurk. However, a lack of social contact while lurking sometimes causes loneliness or apathy among lurkers.
Lurkers are referred to using many names, including browsers, read-only participants, non-public participants, legitimate peripheral participants, or vicarious learners.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lurker is an aberration. It is similar to the darkmantle and the piercer, but attacks with suffocation instead of impaling. The Lurker resembles a flat, grey stingray with two small eyes at the front. They are capable of both creeping along a ceiling and slowly gliding through the air. The darkmantle is said to be the result of crossbreeding a lurker with a piercer. Lurkers live underground.
Usage examples of "lurker".
Thinking furiously, Knucklebones tried to time the erratic flailing of the lurker, but found no pattern.
The lurker had enough intelligence to track Knucklebones as a threat, so it curled itself almost double and sprang to arch away.
To this being the slanteyed man made certain signs with his hands, and the lurker in the dark replied by raising a disgustingly carven flute of ivory in silkcovered paws and blowing certain loathsome sounds from beneath its flowing yellow mask.
From the lurkers, van Liesvelt steps forward, a big shambling bear-shape that carries his familiar grin.
It was pretty much the same setup that she had remembered from her first visit to The Willows, and, at least at first glance, she was certain she carried the right programs to deflect any lurkers in the system.
She lets him go, and the lurkers move warily away, giving him a wide berth.
Arthur turned sharply again after he strode into the chamber, held up the curtain and gave a quick look right and left as if he would make sure there were no lurkers outside.
We are judgmatically placed here, both canoes being hid by the high bank and the bushes, from all eyes, except those of any lurker directly opposite.
Unswerving and obedient to the foul legate's orders, that hellish bird plunged onward through shoals of shapeless lurkers and caperers in darkness, and vacuous herds of drifting entities that pawed and groped and groped and pawed.
Silent and terrible, the lurker waited on the threshold of that dark house, and she knew that she must flee for her life.
Unless you count the flares as my lurker lighted up, or the passing of drunks so far gone they were unafraid of the nighted streets.
Reeds swayed as though lurkers traveled there, though nothing emerged from the green fastnesses but stalking birds, high on their stilts, peering and poking into the mire with lancelike beaks.
The snow lurker twisted away, but she pressed on, twisting as if carving a steak from a mad cow.
Mammal as paranoid grandee of the grassy plains, that (limbic) region of emotional disorganization, falling sickness, psychosomatic choking, another way of saying terror of the veldt, he thought, which is fear not really of lurkers in long grass but of the veldt itself, its terrifying endlessness, its obliteration of both singularity and pluralism, its lack of soul-cozying nooks, its tendency to disappear into itself, leaving us, he thought, with the geometry, music and poetry of our evolved, cross-referencing and highly specialized outer layer of gray tissue (cerebral cortex), not to mention celestial mechanics, medicine, the research and development of wars, not to mention voiceless cries in the night, utterly neomammalian this last activity, a cortical subclass of fear itself itself itself, thought Jean at her typewriter, staring at page twenty, numbered but otherwise blank, and wondering what it would take to "remember through"
I snatched my blasting rod from my backpack as I ran by and sprinted into pursuit, bolstered by anger and adrenaline, determined to catch the mysterious lurker before any more of the crew could be attacked.