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n. - Someone waiting in concealment; Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.

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  • When a local "skulker" is killed, all the old fears are reawakened.
  • If a man can possibly avoid it, let him never go to the hospital: for he will be called a "skulker," or
  • So he says, ‘You door-skulker, what do you want there?’
  • It was near immortal and was far mightier than the night skulker.
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