Usually means: Crossbred dog, often hunts stealthily.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurcher: Merriam-Webster
  2. lurcher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lurcher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lurcher: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lurcher: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lurcher, lurcher: Wordnik
  7. lurcher: Wiktionary
  8. lurcher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lurcher: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lurcher, lurcher: Dictionary.com
  11. Lurcher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Lurcher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lurcher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. lurcher: Rhymezone
  15. Lurcher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lurcher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. lurcher: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lurcher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. lurcher: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurcher: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Lurcher: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lurcher: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurcher: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lurcher: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lurcher)

noun:  (obsolete) One who lurks or lies in wait; one who watches in order to rob or betray; a poacher.
noun:  A type of crossbreed dog ― a cross between a sighthound and any other breed or the offspring of such crosses.
noun:  A large nymphalid butterfly, Yoma sabina, of Australia and Asia.
noun:  (obsolete) A glutton; a voracious eater

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