Usually means: Observer who doesn't actively participate.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word lurker:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurker: Merriam-Webster
  2. lurker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lurker: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lurker: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lurker, lurker: Wordnik
  6. lurker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lurker: Wiktionary
  8. Lurker, lurker: Dictionary.com
  9. Lurker (Dungeons & Dragons), Lurker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Lurker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. lurker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. lurker: Rhymezone
  13. Lurker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. lurker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. lurker: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lurker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Lurker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurker: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurker: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lurker: Netlingo
  3. lurker: CCI Computer
  4. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  5. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  6. lurker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Lurker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lurker)

noun:  One who lurks.
noun:  (Internet slang) 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.
noun:  (archaic, UK, dialect) A small fishing-boat.
noun:  (obsolete slang, UK) An impostor; a quack.

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