Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧑‍🎓 A family name 🏘️ A town in Ireland
Lusk

Lusk

9 9.6
A family name that people use as their last name
  • proper noun
translation icon : Lusk
  • Mrs. Lusk is a bit of a snob.
  • Phil Lusk
  • Lusk and Corn

Examples

  • Mr, uh, Lusk is in charge of this operation, so I'll let him do the talking.

    Stakeout (1987)

  • Mr. Lusk looks hungrily at the huge plates of food that folks are carrying by.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Mr. Lusk: Son, the oil industry is in real trouble right now.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Mrs. Lusk: You both could stand to dress up.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Gentlemen, this is Agent Thomas Lusk from the regional FBI headquarters.

    Stakeout (1987)

  • What's your position now, Mr. Lusk?

    His Kind of Woman (1951)

  • Mrs. Lusk: You're starting work for your father Monday morning.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Welcome to Morro's Lodge, Senor Lusk.

    His Kind of Woman (1951)

  • The Reverend Herbert H. Lusk II endorsed Bush in the 2000 elections and is a firm advocate for Bush's faith-based initiative.

    Academic text (2004)

  • This morning, I had a brief conversation with Mr. Lusk about the upcoming event.

Surface Forms

Lusk main

Etymology

Lusk as a family name probably comes from the Irish town called Lusk, because many surnames come from the place where a family lived, so the name once meant someone 'from Lusk'.