Creeper
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English
Noun
Creeper (plural Creepers)- A person or a thing who crawls or creeps along the ground.
- Often in plural, a one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (botany) Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping; especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- A treecreeper.
- (nautical) A small, four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- The lowest gear of a tractor or truck, also creeper gear, creeper shift.
- A low-profile, wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle.
Quotations
- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. - "Lord of the Flies" (1964) by William Golding
Synonyms
- (one who crawls): crawler
- (garment): babygro, creepers, diaper shirt, infant bodysuit, snapsuit
- (wheeled platform): cradle
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Adjectives
blooming; luxuriant; spiky; parasitic; interlacing; indigenous; deciduous; poisonous; woody.
Thesaurus
algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːpə(r)
Translations
person or thing that creeps
plant
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treecreeper — see treecreeper
grapnel
lowest gear
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wheeled platform
