creeps

To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

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

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

To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

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”

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

An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.

“Stop following me, you creep!”

A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

(preceded by definite article) A sensation that things are crawling on one's skin.

(preceded by definite article) A feeling of fear or horror.

“I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight.”