English words for 'Crawl, creep.'
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noun
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
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adj
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noun
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- Synonym of crawler crane.
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
noun
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
verb
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
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noun
verb
- (Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
- To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- (UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
- To remain unobserved.
- To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- wait in hiding to attack
- to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence public
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- be about a place without any apparent purpose
noun
noun
- plural of creep
- (figurative) A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
- (figurative) A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
- a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
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verb
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adj
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adj
noun
- (loosely, historical) A reptile or amphibian.
- (informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- (zoology, cladistic) Any member of Reptilia, including birds.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
verb
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- feel as if crawling with insects
- (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- show submission or fear
- swim by doing the crawl
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- be full of
noun
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- (figurative) A very slow pace.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
- a very slow movement
verb
- To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- To take a look at; to check out.
- (video games, especially first-person shooters) To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
- To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- throw a glance at; take a brief look at
noun
verb
- (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
- (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
- (African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
- (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
- (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
noun
- (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
- (informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) a black race traitor.
- (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
- North American raccoon
- an eccentric or undignified rustic
adj
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- annoying and unpleasant
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verb
- To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- To avoid an obligation or responsibility.
- To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- move furtively
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
noun
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
noun
noun
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- Synonym of crawler crane.
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
noun
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
verb
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
noun
noun
verb
- (Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
- To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- (UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
- To remain unobserved.
- To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- wait in hiding to attack
- to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence public
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- be about a place without any apparent purpose
noun
noun
- plural of creep
- (figurative) A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
- (figurative) A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
- a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- To avoid an obligation or responsibility.
- To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- move furtively
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- feel as if crawling with insects
- (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- show submission or fear
- swim by doing the crawl
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- be full of
noun
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- (figurative) A very slow pace.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
- a very slow movement
verb
- To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- To take a look at; to check out.
- (video games, especially first-person shooters) To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
- To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- throw a glance at; take a brief look at
noun
verb
- (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
- (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
- (African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
- (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
- (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
noun
- (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
- (informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) a black race traitor.
- (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
- North American raccoon
- an eccentric or undignified rustic
noun
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
verb
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
adj
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (loosely, historical) A reptile or amphibian.
- (informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- (zoology, cladistic) Any member of Reptilia, including birds.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- annoying and unpleasant