creeps Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
  2. noun a feeling of fear and revulsion
    • he gives me the creeps
  3. noun someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
    weirdy; weirdo; weirdie; creep; spook.
  4. noun a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
    creep.
  5. noun a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
    creep.
  6. noun a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
    crawl; creeping; creep; crawling.
    • a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
    • the traffic moved at a creep
  7. verb move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
    crawl; creep.
    • The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
  8. verb to go stealthily or furtively
    pussyfoot; mouse; sneak; creep.
    • ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house
  9. verb grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
    creep.
    • ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings
  10. verb show submission or fear
    fawn; crawl; grovel; cower; cringe; creep.

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