lurk moar
lurk moar verb: used to reprimand a newcomer (often called a "newfag" in forums like 4chan) for posting something that reveals their ignorance of the community's rules, culture, or established in-jokes.
Verb
lurk moar (third-person singular simple present lurks moar, present participle lurking moar, simple past and past participle lurked moar)
- Used to reprimand a newcomer (often called a "newfag" in forums like 4chan) for posting something that reveals their ignorance of the community's rules, culture, or established in-jokes.
- […] and information about people, including suspected pedophiles and women he’d met online. Soon he was encouraging other newfags to “lurk moar,” or learn more on 4chan.2013, Olsen, Parmy, We are Anonymous, Back Bay Books, page 37
- new users unfamiliar with any community’s social world are typically invited to “lurk moar” — meaning they are to first familiarize themselves with the local cultural habits, dialects, and rules before trying to actively engage with and individually appropriate them.2021, Stijn Peeters, Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert, Daniël de Zeeuw, “On the Vernacular Language Games of an Antagonistic Online Subculture”, in National Library of Medicine
Forms of lurk moar
| third-person singular present | lurks moar |
|---|---|
| present participle | lurking moar |
| past participle | lurked moar |
| past | lurked moar |
| alternative form | lurkmoar |
| alternative form | lurk more |
| alternative form | lurkmore |
Origin of lurk moar
A deliberate misspelling of lurk more.
Questions about lurk moar
- What does lurk moar mean?
- Lurk moar means used to reprimand a newcomer (often called a "newfag" in forums like 4chan) for posting something that reveals their ignorance of the community's rules, culture, or established in-jokes.
- What part of speech is lurk moar?
- Lurk moar is a verb.
- What is the past tense of lurk moar?
- The past tense of lurk moar is lurked moar.
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