crawl
IPA: krˈɔɫ
noun
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (figurative) A very slow pace.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
verb
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
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Examples of "crawl" in Sentences
- A baby crawls.
- A spider crawls.
- How do snakes crawl
- A baby crawls on the floor.
- The boy crawls into the hospital.
- But delete the picture of the opening crawl.
- Pallid bats are skilled at climbing and crawling.
- Babies shouldn't try to walk before they can crawl.
- He now walks and crawls like a dog until he reaches a lamppost.
- The contestant has to crawl up, grab the key, and then slide back down.
- Q: So you got the graphics for the title crawl but not the John Williams score?
- Bot flies may not be scary but they are definitely the thing that makes my skin crawl the most.
- Saints preserve us, .. makes a machine gun look like musket fire and my skin crawl just watching that.
- A strange yet familiar feeling passed through Kai making his skin crawl, placing his right hand gently on his sword he waited and watched to see what would happen next.
- Jeffrey Perlman with the American Advertising Federation said running a crawl is an "absolutely terrible idea" and that it would be "terribly disruptive" for television viewers.
- I can picture it now, sitting there showing off my book, together with two other young fantasy authors, at a stand at the fair, silly larper friends asking me to sign the book, it makes my skin crawl in a wonderful silly way.
- The greatest threat to America remains those amongst us who are seemingly to stupid to think beyond the ten foot square in front of a television tuned to the MSM that continues to legitimize unAmerican neo-fascist rats like J.D. Hayworth that crawl from the sewers of the Republican Party.
- STAR WARS was the first VHS to make a million dollars in rentals when it came out in 1982—although technically, this was not the original version either, for in 1981 the subtitle “Episode IV: A New Hope” was added to the title crawl; but, barring this single, rather insignificant change, it was the same film.