LURCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lurcher mean? 

• LURCHER (noun)
  The noun LURCHER has 1 sense:

1. someone waiting in concealment

  Familiarity information: LURCHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LURCHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone waiting in concealment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lurcher; lurker; skulker

Hypernyms ("lurcher" is a kind of...):

waiter (a person who waits or awaits)

 Context examples 

He sat at a table by the window, a deer-hound on one side of him and a lurcher on the other, his feet tucked away under the trestle on which he sat, and his tongue in his cheek, with the air of a man who is much perplexed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)