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What (who) is stalk - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Stalks; Stalk (disambiguation)
stalk
(stalks, stalking, stalked)
1.
The stalk of a flower, leaf, or fruit is the thin part that joins it to the plant or tree.
A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
...corn stalks.
= stem
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
If you stalk a person or a wild animal, you follow them quietly in order to kill them, catch them, or observe them carefully.
He stalks his victims like a hunter after a deer.
= track
VERB: V n
3.
If someone stalks someone else, especially a famous person or a person they used to have a relationship with, they keep following them or contacting them in an annoying and frightening way.
Even after their divorce he continued to stalk and threaten her.
VERB: V n
• stalking
The Home Secretary is considering a new law against stalking.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you stalk somewhere, you walk there in a stiff, proud, or angry way.
If his patience is tried at meetings he has been known to stalk out.
VERB: V adv/prep
stalk
I. v. n.
1.
Walk (stealthily).
2.
Stride, strut, pace, march.
II. n.
Stem, petiole, pedicel, peduncle, culm, spire.
stalk
v. (P; intr.) to stalk out of the room
Examples of use of stalk
1. Does she ask the paparazzi to stalk her at airports?
2. Death and glory stalk them all; we have seen both.
3. Jose Mourinho would stalk out every Saturday, utterly immaculate.
4. On the ground, violence continued to stalk southern Thailand.
5. When criminals stalk the park, everyone keeps out.