Etymology : Middle English crepen, from Old English crEopan; akin to Old Norse krjupa to creep
Pronunciation : krEp
Function : intransitive verb
Date : before 12th century
1. person who makes one's skin crawl (Slang). crawl; climb; sneak, move along quietly and slowly. strange person, pervert, weirdo What a creep! He looks like a stray dog!.
2. an annoying perso.
3. to act obsequiousl.
4. to cheat on someone romantically: "I've been creepin' on my boyfriend ".
5. to go somewhere late at night expressly for sex: "I saw you creeping last night. How was it? ".
6. to drive by in a car slowly with the driver's seat recline.
7. to show interest in a member of the opposite sex by flirting or trying to be noticed. creep\creep\, n.
8. the act or process of creeping.
9. a distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. a creep of undefinable horror. ood's mag. out of the stillness, with gathering creep, like rising wind in leaves.
10. (mining) a slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.creep \creep\ (krēp), v. t. [imp. crept (kr&ebreve;pt) (crope (krōp), obs.); p. p. crept; p. pr. & vb. n. creeping.] [oe. crepen, creopen, as. cre?pan; akin to d. kruipen, g. kriechen, icel. krjupa, sw. krypa, dan. krybe. cf. cripple, crouch.].
11. 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. ye that walk the earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
12. to move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. the whining schoolboy creeping, like snail, unwillingly to school. like a guilty thing, i creep.
13. to move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us. the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. -.
14. tim. iii.
15. 4. to slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
16. to move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. to come as humbly as they used to creep.
17. to grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. "creeping vines.".
18. to have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. see:
crawl, v. i.,.
19. 8. to drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.creep n.
20. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook, schmuck].
21. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
22. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
23. a slow creeping 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" [syn: crawl, crawling, creeping] v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "the crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [syn: crawl] 2: to go stealthily or furtively: "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, steal, pussyfoot] 3: grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example); of plants such as ivy [syn: grow over] 4: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, cringe, cower, grovel].
24. 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.
25. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
26. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
27. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
28. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
29. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
30. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep.
31. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
32. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
33. The act or process of creeping.
34. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
35. A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground. 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.
36. 1. When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly. Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room The rabbit creeps away and hides in a hole.
37. If something creeps somewhere, it moves very slowly. Mist had crept in again from the sea.
38. If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it. Insecurity might creep in An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game. a proposal that crept through unnoticed at the National Council in December.
39. If a rate or number creeps up to a higher level, it gradually reaches that level. The inflation rate has been creeping up to 9.5 per cent The average number of students in each class is creeping up from three to four.
40. disapproval If you describe someone as a creep, you mean that you dislike them a great deal, especially because they are insincere and flatter people.
41. If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened. I always hated that statue. It gave me the creeps.
42. to make someone's flesh creep: see:
flesh. Slow change in the dimensions of a material from prolonged stress. Most common metals exhibit creep behaviour. In the creep test, loads below those that ordinarily cause plastic flow or fracture are applied to the material, and the deformation over a period of time (creep strain) under constant load is measured, usually with an extensometer or strain gauge. Time to failure is also measured against stress. Once creep strain versus time is plotted, various mathematical techniques are available for extrapolating creep behaviour beyond the test times; thus, designers can use thousand-hour test data, for example, to predict ten-thousand-hour behaviour. See also testing machine.
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