Definitions for creeper

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creeper creep·er

Spelling: [kree-per]

IPA: /ˈkri pər/

Creeper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in creeper (ceeeprr).

Definitions for creeper

noun

1. a person or thing that creeps.
2. Botany. a plant that grows upon or just beneath the surface of the ground, or upon any other surface, sending out rootlets from the stem, as ivy and couch grass.
3. Often, creepers. a one-piece garment for an infant, the lower portion resembling briefs and having snaps or buttons across the crotch for convenience in diapering.
4. Chiefly Northeastern U.S. a spiked iron plate worn on the shoe to prevent slipping on ice, rock, etc.
5. Also called brothel creeper. Informal. a shoe with a thick, soft sole:
6. Also called cradle. Automotive. a flat framework on casters, on which a mechanic lies while working under an automobile or the like.
7. Ornithology. any of various birds that creep or climb about on trees, especially of the family Certhiidae, as Certhia americana (brown creeper or tree creeper) of the Northern Hemisphere.
8. a domestic fowl having malformed, short legs, due to a genetic defect.
9. a grappling device for dragging a river, lake, etc.
10. Also, creep. Slang. a sneak thief.
11. Slang. a person who makes persistent sexual advances toward someone, or who cheats on a sexual partner.
12. Slang. creep (def 18).
13. Slang. a person who follows someone persistently or stealthily; a stalker.

Origin of creeper

before 1000; Middle English crepere, Old English crēopere. See creep, -er¹

Examples for creeper

As I did so my gun caught in a creeper, which suddenly whisked it from my hand.

So the toad got into a bucket he happened to possess, and fastened the bucket to the creeper.

The esquine partly resembles a creeper and partly a bramble.

It was of bluish stone, and half covered with Virginia creeper.

There are descriptions of the creeper's music which liken it to a wren's.

The streets beyond were exotic, dangerous, strange—shanties and creeper weed, the mountains marking the horizon.

Much of Lewes in September is scarlet with Virginia creeper.

I happened to tell her the other day that the vine on the fence was a "creeper."

I fancy, too, that we may have exaggerated the monotony of the creeper's lot.

Lay it out in the bay,” said Will, “with a creeper at each end.