See lurkman on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1960, Sutton Woodfield, A for Artemis: A Burlesque of Big-city Intrigue, page 152:",
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"ref": "1993, The Bulletin - Volume 115, page 87:",
"text": "Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.",
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"ref": "2006, David J. Potts, The Myth of the Great Depression, page 220:",
"text": "The compulsion to take the work or lose the dole left many families with barely any option at all, and sending the men up country created special losses and problems. An unemployed 'lurkman' Jim Sharrock, commented about his call-up: 'I lost over relief work. I'd been getting ten bob a week nit-keeping for the SP bloke.'",
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"ref": "2011, Peter Doyle, The Devil's Jump, page 166:",
"text": "It was like that all day: jockeys, trainers, and assorted silvertails all said hello, as did lurkmen and urgers, bookie's runners, and loiterers.",
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