curb crawler
A prostitute's client, especially one who travels in a car to search for a prostitute.
crawler
noun 7
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2VERB + CRAWLER
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noun
1
A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
2
A crawl swimmer.
3
A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
4
A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.
5
A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
noun
1
A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
2
A sycophant.
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noun — terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil
noun — a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
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Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
Wiktionary02
These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.
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In some senses, crawler is marked as obsolete, slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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