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1. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
   - sycophant, toady, lackey, ass-kisser [N. Amer], lacquey, arse-licker [Brit]
    
2. A person who crawls or creeps along the ground
   - creeper
    
3. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
   - earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker [N. Amer], nightcrawler [N. Amer], dew worm, red worm, earth worm

Derived forms: crawlers

See also: crawl

Type of: adulator, flatterer, individual, mortal, oligochaete, oligochaete worm, person, somebody, someone, soul

Part of: class Oligochaeta, Oligochaeta

Encyclopedia: Crawler