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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[e^]pt) ({Crope} (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. {Cripple}, {Crouch}.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. [1913 Webster] The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii. 6. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant. [1913 Webster] To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. 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." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 7. 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., 4. [1913 Webster] 8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Creep \Creep\, n. 1. The act or process of creeping. [1913 Webster] 2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects. [1913 Webster] A creep of undefinable horror. --Blackwood's Mag. [1913 Webster] Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. --Lowell. [1913 Webster] 3. (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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: creep n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: {creep}, {weirdo}, {weirdie}, {weirdy}, {spook}] 2: a slow longitudinal movement or deformation 3: a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot 4: 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" [syn: {crawl}, {crawling}, {creep}, {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}, {creep}] 2: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: {sneak}, {mouse}, {creep}, {pussyfoot}] 3: grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings" 4: show submission or fear [syn: {fawn}, {crawl}, {creep}, {cringe}, {cower}, {grovel}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: creep v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.