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Lurker

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Agent noun of lurk; one who lurks.

n. A small fishing-boat.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who lurks.

n. A small fishing boat.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who lurks, hides, or keeps out of sight.

n. An impostor; a cheap quack.

n. One who turns his hand to any work; a jack of all trades.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone waiting in concealment

Word Usage

"The term lurker is not at all pejorative—it simply means you're reading blog content and following the conversation going on in the comments section of the post, but you don't participate often if at all."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

waiter

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