Lurker

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lurker \Lurk"er\, n.
     1. One who lurks.
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     2. A small fishing boat. [Prov. Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lurker
       n : someone waiting in concealment [syn: {skulker}, {lurcher}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  lurker n. One of the `silent majority' in an electronic forum; one who
     posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's
     postings regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually
     used reflexively: "Oh, I'm just lurking." Often used in `the lurkers',
     the hypothetical audience for the group's {flamage}-emitting regulars.
     When a lurker speaks up for the first time, this is called `delurking'.
  
     The creator of the popular science-fiction TV series "Babylon 5" has
     ties to SF fandom and the hacker culture. In that series, the use of the
     term `lurker' for a homeless or displaced person is a conscious
     reference to the jargon term.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  lurker
       
          {lurking}