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skulker (s) (noun), skulkers (pl)
A person who stays out of sight; usually, for an ulterior reason or because of fear: When Joe was going home late in his neighborhood, he was a skulker for survival because he was trying to avoid being robbed or harmed by the hoodlums who were constantly robbing people in that section of the city.
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