creep (n.)

  1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

    [ Syn: weirdo , weirdie , weirdy , spook ]

  2. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

  3. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

  4. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; a crawl was all that the injured man could manage; the traffic moved at a creep

    [ Syn: crawl , crawling , creeping ]

    creep (v.)

  1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed

    [ Syn: crawl ]

  2. to go stealthily or furtively; ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbors house

    [ Syn: sneak , mouse , pussyfoot ]

  3. grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings'

  4. show submission or fear

    [ Syn: fawn , crawl , cringe , cower , grovel ]

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