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verbshow submission or fear
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"the traffic moved at a creep"nouna slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the bodytype of:
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nounsomeone unpleasantly strange or eccentrictype of:
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verbto go stealthily or furtivelytype of:
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verbmove slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
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nouna pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannottype of:
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nouna slow longitudinal movement or deformationtype of:
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verbgrow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)type of:
Definition that contains creep
- ramp creep up -- used especially of plants
- pixie creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
- shamrock creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage
- pixy creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
- wintergreen creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
- checkerberry creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
- certhiidae creepers
- gaultheria procumbens creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
- subclass rhizopoda creeping protozoans: amoebas and foraminifers
- mountain avens creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America