creep
IPA: krˈip
noun
- 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.
- (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, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (historical, derogatory) Acronym of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
verb
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
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Examples of "creep" in Sentences
- It is creeping nationalization.
- The creep behavior of refractory metals.
- The word nefarious is creeping into my mind.
- There was an element of the chore creeping in.
- It allows for a hint of informality to creep in.
- The notion of totalitarianism begins to creep in.
- The impending storm is creeping higher up the scale.
- He creeps in the house, and they use molasses to trap him.
- Then the information slowly creeps into the article by osmosis.
- His behavior after his so-called apology shows what this creep is made of.
- It's the setting of the figure in the first place that's instruction creep.
- I think Disco and Forastero are the best Mod's on this site (* grovel grovel, creep, creep*)
- Another bible-thumping creep from a bible college who thinks that gender gives him the right to rule.
- Even If the creep is provided the full range of rights, it is an open and shut case the dipwad is guilty.
- Now the people of South Carolina need to follow Jenny's cue and divorce this creep from the high position her does not deserve.
- There is what I call the creep factor -- w ondering if your phones are tapped, the articles in the paper that are not accurate ...
- Her attempts to control what my son calls her and thus, as she sees it, assign to her all the qualities she believes are represented in the title creep me out.
- This creep is willing to risk the ruin of Health Care Reform for millions, because his itty bitty sissy feelings are hurt because the Dems dumped on him in his last election, which he won anyway.
- September 4th, 2009 11: 43 am ET this creep is trying to run away from his shadows! .... this dimwit "core family values" is that working women are harmful to traditional families. he just want women to be slaves working in that labor camp he calls "traditional home" raising babies and doing domestic chores!!!
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