ambush, scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait
(verb) wait in hiding to attack
loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
lurk, skulk
(verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lurk (third-person singular simple present lurks, present participle lurking, simple past and past participle lurked)
To remain concealed in order to ambush.
To remain unobserved.
To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
(Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
(UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
lurk (plural lurks)
The act of lurking.
(obsolete) A swindle.
Source: Wiktionary
Lurk, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurked; p. pr. & vb. n. Lurking.] Etym: [OE. lurken, lorken, prob. a dim. from the source of E. lower to frown. See Lower, and cf. Lurch, a sudden roll, Lurch to lurk.]
1. To lie hid; to lie in wait. Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den. Spenser. Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent. Prov. i. 11.
2. To keep out of sight. The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
