Usually means: Move slowly on hands, knees.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. crawl: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crawl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crawl, crawl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crawl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crawl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crawl, crawl: Wordnik
  7. crawl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crawl: Wiktionary
  9. crawl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crawl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crawl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crawl, crawl: Dictionary.com
  13. crawl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crawl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crawl (Atlas song), Crawl (Childish Gambino song), Crawl (Chris Brown song), Crawl (Entombed EP), Crawl (Kings of Leon song), Crawl (disambiguation), Crawl (film), Crawl (video game), Crawl, The Crawl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crawl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crawl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crawl: Rhymezone
  19. Crawl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crawl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crawl: Free Dictionary
  22. crawl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. crawl: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. crawl: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. crawl: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crawl: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crawl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRAWL: Acronym Finder
  2. crawl: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crawl, crawl, crawl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. crawl: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. crawl: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See crawled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
verb:  (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
verb:  (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
verb:  (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
verb:  (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
verb:  (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
noun:  The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
noun:  The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
noun:  A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
noun:  (figurative) A very slow pace.
noun:  (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
noun:  A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

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