CREEP
- Proper noun. (derogatory) The Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
- Noun. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- Noun. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- Noun. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something.
- Noun. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- Noun. (context, publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- Noun. (context, materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- Noun. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Noun. (context, informal) An annoying irritating person.
- Noun. (context, informal) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
- Noun. (context, agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- Verb. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Verb. (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- Verb. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- Verb. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
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