Meaning

• Verb

  1. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
  2. To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
  3. To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
  4. To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
  5. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
  6. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
  7. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
  8. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
  9. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
  10. (slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

• Noun