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1. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
   - crawl
    
2. To go stealthily or furtively
   - sneak, mouse, 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
   - fawn, crawl, cringe, cower, grovel

1. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
   - 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
   "the traffic moved at a creep"
   - crawl, crawling, creeping

Derived forms: creeps, crept, creeping

See also: creeper, creepy

Type of: bend, change of location, diffuse, disagreeable person, fan out, flex, go, locomote, locomotion, move, pen, spread, spread out, travel, unpleasant person, walk

Encyclopedia: Creep