creep

To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.

To grow across a surface rather than upwards.

To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.

Electrification of the Eastern Region main line from Strasbourg, incidentally, is steadily creeping nearer to Paris, and is now complete as far as Château Thierry, 59 miles away; [...].

To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

Prices have been creeping up all year.

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

Old age creeps upon us.

[…]guard his understanding from being imposed on by the willful or at least undesigned sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.

The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).

A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.

The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

Christmas creep

feature creep

In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.

Acronym of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.

While presidential elections have been marred by mudslinging since the early Republic, these USC alums deployed a particular type of dirty tricks: what became known as “ratf--king,” or the use of unscrupulous tactics to interfere with the campaigns of opponents. The tactics pioneered by members of Trojans for Representative Government and later CREEP set a precedent for the sort of organized political sabotage that has become commonplace today in a digital world, especially for Republicans.