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delurker

delurker noun: one who delurks.

Noun

delurker (plural delurkers)

  1. (Internet) One who delurks.
    • One is how the delurker carried out the delurking action, i.e. how they presented themselves to the group for the first time. The other is how the group received them.2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces

Forms of delurker

pluraldelurkers

Origin of delurker

From delurk + -er.

Questions about delurker

What does delurker mean?
Delurker means one who delurks.
What part of speech is delurker?
Delurker is a noun.
What is the plural of delurker?
The plural of delurker is delurkers.

Words near delurker in the dictionary

  1. Delunas
  2. delundung
  3. Delungra
  4. delurk
  5. delurked
  6. delurker
  7. delurkers
  8. delurking
  9. delurks
  10. delusion
  11. delusion of adequacy

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