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stalker

[ staw-ker ]

noun

  1. a person who pursues game, prey, or a person stealthily.
  2. a person who harasses another person, as a former lover, a famous person, etc., in an aggressive, often threatening and illegal manner:

    Hollywood stars often have security guards to keep dangerous stalkers at bay.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of stalker1

stalk 2 (verb) + -er 1

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Example Sentences

I have a stalker—an online harasser who has moved into real-world stalking—which made me more fearful.

For example, if someone has previously encountered a stalker or otherwise abusive figure — whether on the app or off — they now have a tool to directly block them on Tinder.

Not only that, he is the lone stalker in the field, which could put him in the perfect spot to take advantage of virtually any pace picture.

A giant networkWith Galperin’s advice, we set up a test in which my colleague played the role of a stalker and I experienced what that would look like as a target.

Republican opposition to the bill revolves in part around closing the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” which adds dating partners and stalkers to the provision banning spouses of convicted domestic violence or abuse from owning firearms.

ARS identified what it called the “stalker gap,” where people convicted of stalking as a misdemeanor can still carry guns.

These men are nothing like the sensitive stalker and serial killer in The Fall.

So the real meat of Stalker, ostensibly, is the pseudo-intellectual conversation about misogyny.

Yes, Levine plays the role of a stalker and Prinsloo that of his “prey,” but she never comes across as a victim.

One of the suits against Kelley charged her with defamation for calling Miller an “intimacy stalker” in her LiveJournal page.

You are born for better things than to remain an obscure forester, and perhaps a deer-stalker.

We were almost surrounded by deer; but the greater number were small vigilant hinds, the abomination and curse of a stalker.

No modern lady in deer-stalker's costume could have shrunk less from any dangerous road than the once fastidious Paula.

The difference between these is something like, in the sporting world, that between the stalker and the hunter proper.

Why dont you wear a deer-stalker instead of that hideous jockey thing?

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