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1. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
   "The crocodile was creeping along the riverbed";
   - crawl
    
2. To go stealthily or furtively
   "..stead of creeping around spying on the neighbour's house";
   - sneak, mouse, pussyfoot [informal]
    
3. Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
   "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
    
4. Change or develop gradually

1. [informal] Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
   - weirdo [informal], weirdie [informal], weirdy [informal]
    
2. A slow longitudinal movement or deformation
    
3. A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
   "the traffic moved at a creep";
   - crawl, crawling, creeping
    
4. A small gradual change or deviation in a quantity
    
5. A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

Derived forms: crept, creeping, creeps

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

Encyclopedia: Creep