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creep English

Meaning creep meaning

What does creep mean?
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creep Noun

— When an animal moves with its belly close to the ground. The creep of the snake makes it frightening. — Small movement of an object. — Small and progressive changes of a measure. Few people noticed the creep of the prices this year. — A very annoying person who makes you nervous. Stop staring at me all the time, you creep!

creep Verb

— An animal creeps when it moves with its belly close to the ground. Snakes and lizards creep. — A plant creeps when it grows close to the ground or stuck to a wall, instead of growing upwards. — To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction, like a snake can move. — To change slowly and gradually. When prices creep, some people do not immediately notice the changes.

creep

— verb (= crawl) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed — verb (= sneak) to go stealthily or furtively ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house — verb grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings — noun a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot — noun a slow longitudinal movement or deformation — noun someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric — noun (= crawl, crawling, creeping) 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 — verb (= fawn) show submission or fear

Synonyms creep synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as creep?

creep English » English

crawl sneak slither climb steal stalk grovel cringe worm creeping spread slip slink slimebag scumbag scum glide crud swine still hunt slimebucket slimeball sleazeball sleaze scuzzball scuzzbag scoundrel rascal pussyfoot move slowly move go fawn drag dirtball dirtbag crawling cower weirdy weirdo weirdie walk stealthily trail tiptoe steal up on spook son of a bitch slide sidle prowl

Topics creep topics

What do people use creep to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Crawl
Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Gas
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Move quickly

Move slowly

Conjugation creep conjugation

How do you conjugate creep?

creep · verb

Examples creep examples

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Simple sentences

The cat took advantage of the high grass to creep on the bird.
You're a creep, Mister!
I hate you, creep!
You probably think I'm a creep.
Get away from me, you creep!
And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men. And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

Movie subtitles

The soldiers who killed them were also slain, so no friend could creep to the desert with funeral offerings for my condemned spirit.
Enough about that creep.
I'm surprised to see such abandoned ways creep into so fine a house.
Yeah, they creep in overnight.
Nab Benny the Creep in cement killing!
Link Benny the Creep with Big Tom!
On account of Benny the Creep had an accident.
I never heard of Benny the Creep.
And in the suitcase right beside Benny the Creep when he gets caught is a pair with that big JL monogram.
Just let it creep up on me.
Put it on Benny the Creep.
You never heard of Benny the Creep.
Benny the Creep never heard of you.
Him and another creep waltz in to knock over a store.. andheleavesthe heapoutside with the engine running.
Hey, there's the little creep now!
Well, you got to crawl before you creep, don't you?
Him and another creep waltz in to knock over a store.
I keep feeling that two men with butterfly nets are going to creep up behind you and lead you away.
You gonna creep in the corner alls your life?
Apologize, that's what I'll do. Creep in just like a little fox, and warm myself in his heart.
Able to creep through the smallest openings. The perfect instrument for the spider murders.
You know you're not in love with that creep.
He's a nasty little venomous creep.
Stop talking about the creep!
Go to hell, you creep.
I don't know who the creep is, but I'd sure like to lay my hands on him.
Oh, at some high-class creep joint. Musician's hangout.
You pathetic creep!
Creep past that rock.
They creep up on you.
Anybody who'd live in a creep joint like this must be a moronic idiot.
I'm Doctor Zabor. Welcome to my creep joint.
Oh, gosh, I'm sorry Mr. Idiot. I didn't mean to call your creep joint a creep joint.
Not even Peter, with all of his radiant innocence about women. could have been stirred for one instant by that dingy little creep.
It's sad that after 48 years of marriage distrust should creep into our relationship.
Beat it, you little creep!
And you creep along the ditch very quietly, like.
A kid who's probably waking up now, a husband who doesn't understand, and a creep who's off to sleep. That's all we have.
I know at least one person who'll be happy about it. Your creep.

News and current affairs

As America debates whether or not to invade Iraq, fears that the country's economic recovery will stall are beginning to creep into the discussion; with that, worries about the health of the global economy are growing, too.
Eastern thinking could creep into ethology unnoticed partly because it filtered into the literature through awkward formulations and translations that native English speakers found it easy to improve on.
But the time will come when world interest rates begin to rise, as central bankers prepare to resist the upward creep of inflation.
And the peace process will creep forward - more process than peace - until it encounters the next roadblock.
Powerful scientific abstractions eventually creep into the way we enjoy art, and how we form our laws and articulate our ethics.
Even hitherto independent central banks have not escaped the creep toward state-sponsored capitalism.
When the peat ignites, the fire can creep beneath the surface and erupt somewhere else, days or weeks later.

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