Usually means: Pursue or approach stealthily and obsessively.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stalk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stalk: Merriam-Webster
  3. stalk, stalk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stalk, stalk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stalk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stalk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stalk, stalk: Wordnik
  8. stalk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stalk: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. stalk: Wiktionary
  11. stalk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. stalk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. stalk: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. stalk: Dictionary.com
  15. stalk (n.), stalk (v1.), stalk (v2.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. stalk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Stalk (botany), Stalk (sheaf), Stalk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Stalk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. stalk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. stalk: Rhymezone
  21. Stalk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. stalk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. stalk: FreeDictionary.org
  24. stalk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. stalk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. stalk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stalk: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. stalk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stalk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. stalk: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. stalk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stalk: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. Stalk: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  5. stalk: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stalk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stalk: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. stalk: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stalk: Croquet

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See stalked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The stem or main axis of a plant.
noun:  The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
noun:  Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
noun:  (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
noun:  One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
noun:  (zoology)
noun:  A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
noun:  The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
noun:  The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
noun:  (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
noun:  (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
verb:  (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
verb:  (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
verb:  (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
noun:  A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
noun:  The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
noun:  A haughty style of walking.

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