creep /krip/
1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
synset: creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook
2. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
synset: creep
3. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
synset: creep
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"
synset: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping
1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
2. to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
synset: 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"
synset: creep
4. show submission or fear
synset: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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