- a person that lurches, or lurks
- a thief; poacher
- Brit. a crossbred dog trained to hunt silently: used by poachers
lurcher
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lurcher
noun
- Chiefly British A crossbred dog formerly used chiefly by hunters and poachers.
- Archaic A sneak thief.
Origin of lurcher
Middle English from lorchen to lurk perhaps from lurken ; see lurk .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural lurchers)
- A type of crossbreed dog "• a cross between a sighthound and any other breed or the offspring of such crosses.
Noun
(plural lurchers)
- (obsolete) A glutton; a gormandizer.
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