Dictionary definition · creep
noun
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body"a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"
verb
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
- to go stealthily or furtively"… stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)"ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
- show submission or fear
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).