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What is a lurker?

What is a lurker? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Agent noun of lurk; one who lurks.
    1. (Internet) 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.
  2. (archaic, Britain, dialect) A small fishing-boat.
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Among friends, she'll joke about the dread she feels when she spots a fervent lurker at one of her readings.
I gave her the address considering that she'd probably become another lurker, and that we'd probably see each other around at parties and make small talk, nothing more.
Even Alice had now stopped thinking of Mr. Richard Ravenal, and thought only of the lurker in ambush.
With the mist floating across those openings, it would be easy for a lurker to watch him unseen.
He had recognized the lurker as a former unreliable employe of the Great Northern, discharged at the time of the great strike.
Go thou to thy charge among the piles of the fuel, and see that no lurker remaineth to do injury.

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