Definitions for creeps

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IPA: /krips/

Creeps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in creeps (ceeprs).

Definitions for creeps

noun

1. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
2. an act or instance of creeping:
3. Slang. an obnoxious, disturbingly eccentric, deviant, or painfully introverted person.
4. Slang. an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy.
5. Slang. creeper (def 10).
6. a gradual or inconspicuous increase, advance, change, or development:
7. Geology. the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction. the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.
8. Mechanics. the gradual, permanent deformation of a body produced by a continued application of heat or stress.
9. a grappling iron; grapnel.
10. Firearms. the slack in a trigger mechanism before it releases the firing pin.
11. creep feeder.
12. the creeps, Informal. a sensation of horror, fear, disgust, etc., suggestive of the feeling induced by something crawling over the skin:

Idioms

1. make one's flesh creep, to be frightening or repellent; cause one to experience uneasiness:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to follow persistently or stealthily, especially online:
2. Archaic. to creep along or over.

verb (used without object)

1. to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
2. to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily (often followed by up):
3. to move or advance slowly or gradually:
4. to sneak up behind someone or without someone's knowledge (usually followed by up on):
5. to enter or become evident inconspicuously, gradually, or insidiously (often followed by in or into:) The writer's personal bias occasionally creeps into the account.
6. to move or behave timidly or servilely.
7. to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant.
8. to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else.
9. Slang. to flirt with or make persistent sexual advances toward someone (often followed by on): to cheat on one’s sexual partner:
10. Slang. to follow someone persistently or stealthily, as on a social media website (often followed by on):
11. Slang. to suddenly intrude into someone’s photograph as it is being taken:
12. to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced.
13. (of a metal object) to become deformed, as under continuous loads or at high temperatures.
14. Nautical. to grapple (usually followed by for):

Origin of creeps

so called from the effect on the animal's gait; see creep, -s³

Examples for creeps

Of course, Creekmore knew the tales about the Killer, and frankly, the house gave him the creeps.

There is a slightly more political bent to the movies, and we all have a political point of view, and it creeps into the films.

Weird places some of them, too—gives me the creeps to think of them sometimes!

And nobody fears the spotlight as creeps who would be shown for what they really are.

These men gave him the creeps, innocent of all guilt though he was.

She called father and son The creeps, or just Them, as in “I want to see them brought out feet first.”

It's foolish, but that still and the liquor gives me the creeps.

I hide the box of bug powder when I hear two other creeps come running.

It gave me the creeps, and that is a sensation that does not bother me very much these days.

From creeps and trolls to hoaxes and hackers, these are the things that made us want to say sayonara to the Interwebs this year.