Definitions
1.verbTo move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
2.verbOf plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3.verbTo move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
4.verbTo make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
5.verbTo move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
6.verbTo slip, or to become slightly displaced.
7.verbTo move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
8.verbTo have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
9.verbTo drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
10.verbTo covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
11.nounThe movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
12.nounA relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
13.nounA slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
14.nounThe gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively."christmas creep"
15.nounIn sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
16.nounAn increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
17.nounThe imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
18.nounSomeone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
19.nounA frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills."Stop following me, you creep!"
20.nounA barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
21.noun(preceded by definite article) A sensation that things are crawling on one's skin.
22.noun(preceded by definite article) A feeling of fear or horror."I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight."