English Dictionary

creeper

/ˈkɹipɚ/

noun

A person or a thing that crawls or creeps. / (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.

I saw a creeper crawling on the ground.

意味（1）

A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.

Standing Waters[…] are most unwholesome, putrified, and full of mites, creepers, slimy, muddy, uncleane, corrupt, impure, by reason of the Suns heat, and still standing;

意味（2）

(often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.

意味（3）

A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.

意味（4）

A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.

意味（5）

A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.

意味（6）

(chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.

意味（7）

An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.

意味（8）

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

意味（9）

Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.

Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

意味（10）

A treecreeper.

意味（11）

(nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.

意味（12）

The lowest gear of a tractor or truck.

意味（13）

A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle.

意味（14）

(derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.

Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.

意味（15）

A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.

意味（16）

(cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.

May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.