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What is the noun for stalking?

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stalk
  1. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
  2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
  3. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
  4. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  5. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  6. (zoology)
    1. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
    2. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
    3. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  7. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.”
      “Bananas are not grown on a tree but on a tall rigid stalk consisting of tightly wound leaf stems.”
stalker
  1. A person who engages in stalking. Originally meant a tracker and hunter or guide of game.
  2. A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
  3. Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
  4. A kind of fishing net.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Any more of this and she'll be getting a reputation as a celebrity stalker.”
      “After all a bully is somewhat similar to a stalker, they follow you, taunt you, frighten you.”
      “But when his love was not reciprocated he turned from admirer to stalker, Harrogate magistrates were told.”
stalking
stalk
  1. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  2. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.”
      “Bananas are not grown on a tree but on a tall rigid stalk consisting of tightly wound leaf stems.”
stalkumentary
  1. A documentary film or programme which follows around its subject and/or intrudes upon his or her private life, particularly to a degree characterized as stalking.
stalkerazzi
  1. (derogatory) Paparazzi who violate their targets' privacy in the manner of stalkers.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The stalkerazzi, as I fondly like to call them wouldn't leave me alone.”
      “Oxford has noted several new formations such as videorazzi, stalkerazzi, and snapperazzi which have joined the already well-established paparazzi.”
stalkee
  1. One who is stalked; the victim of a stalker.
stalkerhood
  1. The condition of being a stalker.
stalkarazzi
  1. Alternative spelling of stalkerazzi
stalkette
  1. (rare) A female stalker.
stalk
  1. A haughty style of walking.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.”
      “Bananas are not grown on a tree but on a tall rigid stalk consisting of tightly wound leaf stems.”
stalkumentaries
  1. plural of stalkumentary
stalkettes
  1. plural of stalkette
stalkings
stalkees
  1. plural of stalkee
stalkers
  1. plural of stalker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Already, she is in need of bodyguards to protect her from the all-too-real threat of stalkers.”
      “I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide, fratricide, genocide.”
      “Celebrity stalkers are usually found in the love obsessional group, a high proportion of whom suffer from psychotic illnesses.”
stalks
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