Meaning of creep | Babel Free

Definitions

1. fatigue
2. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
   countable, uncountable
3. Acronym of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory, historical
4. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
   countable, uncountable
5. third-person singular present indicative
6. A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
   countable, uncountable
7. second-person singular imperative
8. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
   uncountable
9. In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
   countable, uncountable
10. An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
    countable, uncountable
11. The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
    countable, uncountable
12. Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
    countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable
13. A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
    countable, derogatory, especially, informal, uncountable
14. A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Christmas creep”

“feature creep”

“instruction creep”

“mission creep”

“"You mentioned some others," I said. "More creeps," she told me. '"That guy was plain looking for trouble. You know, he starts hanging out with some of the shooters Whitey Tass keeps around, angling for an introduction to the big man himself, and he's damn lucky he got picked up by the fuzz before Whitey got sore. He runs too big an operation in the city to be bugged by a pig like Yard. One day Lou Steubal tried to get an inside track with Whitey, levering him on account of what Whitey did to his sister, and they found Lou in the drink. It looked like Lou got gassed up and fell in, but don't try to tell me that. Whitey had him tapped out."”

“But I'm a creep / I'm a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don't belong here”

“[…]the catalyst was getting locked in the bathroom of her office with her landlord. "Two hours with that creep," she said. "You can't believe it[…]he got a ladder and came through the bathroom window and almost broke his balls on that pointed tampax box he made us buy. He brought hammers and screws and drills, but we were trapped. It got dark[…]He kept chipping away at the lock, and between the chipping he talked to me about his back and a couple of knee-operations. Finally someone tapped on the door from the outside and it opened, just like that.[…]"”

“"Why're you working your butt off for that creep? He takes your money, borrows your car, and treats you like shit. Can't you tell he's on drugs?"”

“"Outrageous!" said Tylan. "You know, without Fingers and baby Trev, we could have won." "Yeah, Trevor, what a creep — running off home at half-time like that," said Frankie.”

“It was whispered that the priest was a pervert. Was he? The girls said he was a creep. I didn't quite know what it meant to be a creep, but it was obviously not a good thing. It was said that he sometimes fondled the girls, their breasts, and said lousy things to them, that they were beautiful or something like that.[…]Disgusting guys. I thought the guy at Bústaðir was a creep. An old man who liked to dance.”

“Saiera shuddered through an exaggerated shiver. "He's a creep. He was a creep in high school, and he's been a creep ever since. Look..." She flipped to the index, found what she was looking for, and fanned the pages until she reached the one she wanted. "Here he is. A young Andy Gluck, chubby as a penguin, stared out of the page from behind round wire-frame glasses. A camera hung from a strap around his neck. […] "He doesn't look creepy," I said. "Kind of nerdy, in a harmless way. "Looks can be deceiving. See that camera? He was always going around with that camera, snapping pictures. Some girls caught him trying to get 'up skirt' shots while they sat at their desks.[…]"”

“While presidential elections have been marred by mudslinging since the early Republic, these USC alums deployed a particular type of dirty tricks: what became known as “ratf--king,” or the use of unscrupulous tactics to interfere with the campaigns of opponents. The tactics pioneered by members of Trojans for Representative Government and later CREEP set a precedent for the sort of organized political sabotage that has become commonplace today in a digital world, especially for Republicans.”

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