Usually means: Moved slowly and quietly forward.
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  1. crept: Merriam-Webster
  2. crept: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crept: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crept: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crept: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crept, crept: Wordnik
  7. crept: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crept: Wiktionary
  9. crept: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crept: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crept: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crept, crept: Dictionary.com
  13. crept: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Crept: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. crept: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Crept: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. crept: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. crept: FreeDictionary.org
  19. crept: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. crept: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. crept: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crept: Medical dictionary

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  1. Crept: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.
verb:  To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
verb:  To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
verb:  To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
verb:  To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
verb:  To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
verb:  (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
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:  (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
noun:  (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:  (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:  (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
noun:  (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
noun:  (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
noun:  (historical, derogatory) Acronym of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
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