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Definition of Creep
1. Verb. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground. "The streets creep with crowds"; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Formicate
Derivative terms: Crawl, Crawl, Crawler, Crawler, Crawling, Creeper, Creeping
2. Noun. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Creepy
3. Verb. To go stealthily or furtively. "The children creep to the playground"; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
Generic synonyms: Walk
Derivative terms: Creeper, Sneak
Also: Sneak Away, Sneak Out
4. Noun. A slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
5. Verb. Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface). "Ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
6. Noun. A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
7. Verb. Show submission or fear.
Generic synonyms: Bend, Flex
Derivative terms: Coward, Crawler, Fawner, Groveler, Groveller
8. Noun. A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body. "The traffic moved at a creep"
Generic synonyms: Locomotion, Travel
Derivative terms: Crawl, Crawl
Definition of Creep
1. v. t. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
2. n. The act or process of creeping.
Definition of Creep
1. Proper noun. (derogatory) The committee Committee to re-elect Re-elect the President President, which raised money for w:Richard Nixon Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection. ¹
2. Noun. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails) ¹
3. Noun. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure. ¹
4. Noun. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something ¹
5. Noun. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively. ¹
6. Noun. (context: 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. ¹
7. Noun. (context: materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress. ¹
8. Noun. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock. ¹
9. Noun. (context: informal pejorative) An annoying irritating person ¹
10. Noun. (context: informal pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching. ¹
11. Noun. (context: agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through. ¹
12. Verb. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. ¹
13. Verb. (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. ¹
14. Verb. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. ¹
15. Verb. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Creep
1. to crawl [v CREPT or CREEPED, CREEPING, CREEPS] - See also: crawl
Medical Definition of Creep
1. Any time-dependent strain developing in a material or an object in response to the application of a force or stress. (05 Mar 2000)