creep
see also: CREEP
Pronunciation Verb
CREEP
Proper noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.013
see also: CREEP
Pronunciation Verb
creep (creeps, present participle creeping; past crept, past participle crept)
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- Synonyms: crawl
- (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- Prices have been creeping up all year.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- Old age creeps upon us.
- To slip#Verb|slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
- The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn#Verb|fawn.
- A creeping sycophant.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:
- To come as humbly as they used to creep / To holy altars.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- The sight made my flesh creep.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To covertly have sex with (a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- 2000, Shaggy, It Wasn't Me (song)
- Honey came in and she caught me red-handed / Creeping with the girl next door / Picture this we were both butt naked / Banging on the bathroom floor
- 2000, Shaggy, It Wasn't Me (song)
- French: ramper
- German: kriechen
- Italian: abbarbicarsi
- Portuguese: trepar
- Russian: стели́ться
- Spanish: reptar
- German: schleichen
- Portuguese: rastejar
- Russian: кра́сться
- German: schleichen
- Russian: ползти́
- Portuguese: esgueirar
- Russian: кра́сться
- Russian: оплыва́ть
- Russian: пресмыка́ться
- Portuguese: formigar
- Spanish: hormigueo
creep
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- Christmas creep. Feature creep. Instruction creep. Mission creep
- (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- (informal, pejorative) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- (informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- Stop following me, you creep!
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- French: rampement
- German: kriechen
- Italian: strisciare
- Portuguese: rastejo
- Russian: по́лзание
- Italian: scorrimento, spostamento, deriva
- Russian: сполза́ние
- French: fatigue
- Italian: scollamento
- German: Knilch, Widerling
- Italian: antipatico, ruffiano, lecchino
- Spanish: desgraciado
- German: Widerling
- Russian: уро́д
CREEP
Proper noun
- (historical, derogatory) Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
- CRP (not derogatory)
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.013