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lurk
noun
a cunning scheme or stratagem AUSTRALIA, 1891
A positive term. When referring to a fraudulent or otherwise illegal activity a “lurk” is only ever a misdemeanour or a bending of the rules. Commonly refers also to a job that is easy yet sounds like hard work, or has some clever trick to being profitable.- Ask Dennis an’ Pat, matey. They know all the lurks. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 159, 1957
- Stone the crows! That’s a bonzer lurk so long as the bastards don’t catch us in mid stream. — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 44, 1968
- You fill out a business return for Income Tax? I hear that’s the lurk these days isn’t it? — Michael Peters, Pommie Bastard, p. 49, 1969
- I’m awake up to all the lurks, mate, don’t you worry. I’ve got all the clues. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 96, 1969
- [F]or every honest lurk man like Chilla there has to be a letter of the law regulation enforcer, a lurk detector like Brown Tongue Parker. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 4, 1971
- These men know all the lurks. They’re fowls, misfits kicked out of other ships. — J.E. MacDonnell, Big Bill the Bastard, p. 112, 1976
- But my main beef about the ID card is that it will rob the poor of the few lurks they still have. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 120, 1986
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