Creeper

Definition: Creeper

Creeper

Noun

1. Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping.

2. A person who crawls or creeps along the ground.

3. Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb about on trees.

Date "creeper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	A plant, rarely with a woody stem, that grows mainly horizontally on or near the ground, putting out roots at intervals. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	An endless chain, with projecting bars at intervals that catch the car axles and haul them up an inclined plane. Creepers are used on the surface and around the pit bottom. They are also used on relatively flat roadwaysto retard or propel the cars as required. (references)
Slang	Adjective. Source: The adjective creeper comes from the way marijuana may "sneak up" on someone. Definition: To describe a type of maijuana that has a slow but collectively heavy effect on the mind. Context: This is used when describing the effects of a different type of marijuana. Social Source: Northwestern Creative Drug Users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Creeper

Synonyms: crawler (n), tree creeper (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vegetable	Plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Creeper

English words defined with "creeper": American creeper, American ivy ♦ brown creeper ♦ Certhia americana, Certhia familiaris, Clamper, Creeping warbler ♦ European creeper ♦ Five-leaved ♦ Japanese ivy ♦ poison ivy ♦ Radicant ♦ tree creeper, Trumpet ash, trumpet flower, Trumpet-shaped ♦ White-eye. (references)

Specialty definitions using "creeper": Flower of Paradise ♦ Hasenclever turntable, HEDGE CREEPER. (references)

Etymologies containing "creeper": Virginia. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Creeper (1973)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Creeper (reference) Pumpkin Man and the Crafty Creeper (reference) Scooby-Doo! and the Carnival Creeper (Scooby-Doo Mysteries, 7) (reference) Scooby-Doo! Jeepers, It's the Creeper! : Super Paint With Water (reference) Swamp of the Hideous Zombies: Graveyard Creeper 1 (First Stepping Stone Books) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Vol. 9: Pottsylvania Creeper (reference) Creeper (reference) Little House on the Prairie: The Creeper of Walnut Grove (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Midnight Creeper [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Baby Jockey Navy Sleeveless Creeper - Small (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Brian Ledford from the Virginia Department of Forestry inspects tree planting as part of CREP project. Virginia Creeper Trail. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.		NRCS and partners inspecting tree planting CREP project along the Virginia Creeper Trail. Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.
	CREP project and tree planting along the Virginia Creeper Trail. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.		Conservation partners stand in front of the S. Fork of the Holston River Creeper Trail Project. Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.
	Rotational grazing along the Creeper Trail, South Fork of the Holston River Project. Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Creeper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "Creeper" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.35%	41	53,521
Noun (proper)	4.65%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

Expressions using "creeper": american creeper ♦ brown creeper ♦ bush creeper ♦ canary creeper ♦ emerald creeper ♦ european creeper ♦ giant potato creeper ♦ goruck creeper ♦ Honey creeper ♦ tree creeper ♦ trumpet creeper ♦ Virginia creeper ♦ wall creeper. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "creeper": creeper-clad, creeper-covered.
	Ending with "creeper": tree-creeper.
	Containing "creeper": virginia-creeper-covered.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "creeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kthetra (clutches), bimë kacavjerrëse (clambering plant, climber, twiner, vine). (various references)

Arabic		‏معترش, ‏مانعة الإنزلاق (calk), ‏مرساة صغيرة, ‏حشرة زحافة, ‏زاحف (creepy, reptilian), ‏طائر متسلق. (various references)

Bulgarian		пълзящо растение (climber, rambler, runner, vine), пълзящо животно. (various references)

Chinese		藟 (bramble, bud), 虆 (bramble, dirt-basket), �"" (Brassica campestris, to spread), 爬行物. (various references)

Czech		popínavá rostlina, liána (liana). (various references)

Danish		spor med kaede ( og gribeanordning ), rullebraedt (skate-board), krybplante (creeping plant). (various references)

Dutch		wagenvangketting, opgaande kettingbaan, opdrukbaan, montage-rolbed, kruipplant (creeping plant). (various references)

Farsi		گیاه پیچی یانیلوفری , خزنده (Crawly, Worm), ادم متملق ومرموز. (various references)

Finnish		köynnöskasvi (climber, climbing plant). (various references)

French		rampant (crawling, creeping). (various references)

German		kriechpflanze (trailer), Kriecher (bootlicker, crawler, creepers, groveler, groveller, reptile, sycophants, truckler). (various references)

Greek		έρπων βλαστός (creeping plant), έρπον φυτό (creeping plant), φυτό άνερπων, αναρριχητικό φυτό (climber, vine). (various references)

Hebrew		טפסן (climber). (various references)

Hungarian		kúszónövény (clambering plant, climber, liana, liane, rambling plant, runner, trailer). (various references)

Italian		pianta rampicante (climber). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�""草 (vine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つるくさ (vine). (various references)

Manx		snaueyder (crawler), raiseyder (climber, groper, sloth), naaer (viper), ayr (father, father figure, generator, mover, padre). (various references)

Pig Latin		eepercray

Portuguese		carrapita, trepadeira (bindweed, climbing, ivy, tree-creeper), rastejador, planta trepadora (climber, creeping plant, liane, vine), planta rasteira (creeping plant), arpão (gaff, gig). (various references)

Romanian		cãţãrãtoare, vierme (gentle, grub, insect, maggot, worm), plantã târâtoare, animal târâtor. (various references)

Russian		ползучее растение (rambler), драга (drag, dredge, tangle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		puzavac (tree creeper). (various references)

Spanish		charlador (cackler, chatty, loquacious), cadena rastrera, cadena avanzadora (push-puller), trepadora (rambler), rastrera (creeping plant), planta rampante (creeping plant), habla (consultation, demagogy, dialog, dialogue, is spoken, joke, language, parlance, speak, speech, term), enredadera (bindweed, climber, climbing plant, convolvulus, morning glory). (various references)

Swedish		slingerväxt (clambering plant, vine, winder), krypväxt, krypare (crawler, creeping things), krypande växt (creeping plant), kryp (bug, insect, Midge, worm), klätterväxt (vine), gummisko (gumshoe, rubber shoe), dragg (dragnet, grapnel). (various references)

Turkish		yaltakçı (adulatory, bootlicker, crawler, creep, cringing, greaser, groveler, groveller, lickspittle, obsequious, oily, servile, slime, slimy, smarmy, wheedling), tırmaşık kuşu (tree creeper), sarmaşık (climber, Ivy, twiner, voluble), sürüngen (reptant, reptile, reptilian, wandering), krampon (climbing irons, cramp, crampiron, crampon, crampoon, spikes, stud), dalkavuk (adulator, adulatory, apple polisher, bootlicker, brown-nose, bumsucker, cringing, deadhead, flatterer, flunkey, flunky, groveler, groveller, lackey, minion, reptile, silky, soapy, sycophant, toadeating, toady, tufthunter, yes man). (various references)

Ukrainian		рептилія (reptilian), кар'�"рист-улесник, повзуча рослина (crawler, groundling, parasite, vine), плазун (crawler, reptile, reptilian, worm), драга (drag). (various references)

Vietnamese		lo� i vật bò giống cây bò. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "creeper": creepers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "creeper": honeycreeper. (additional references)
	Words containing "creeper": honeycreepers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Creeper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cheeper, cleeper, coreper, Creber, creeeh, creeler, creepe, Creepea, creeped, creepered, creepes, creepit, Creider, creper, crype, reeper. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "creeper" (pronounced 'Creep"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-p-r-r"
	-2 letters: creep, crepe.
	-3 letters: cepe, cere, epee, peer, pree.
	-4 letters: cee, cep, ere, err, pec, pee, per, rec, ree, rep.
	-5 letters: er, pe, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-p-r-r"
	+1 letter: creepers, creepier, preerect.
	+2 letters: excerpter, perceiver, perfecter, precrease, preerects, prescreen, respecter.
	+3 letters: crowkeeper, decipherer, encipherer, excerpters, perceivers, perfecters, precleared, precreased, precreases, preerected, prefecture, preference, prescreens, preservice, recarpeted, recuperate, respecters.
	+4 letters: carpentered, crowkeepers, decipherers, encipherers, intercepter, overprecise, pieceworker, precensored, predecessor, preelectric, preerecting, prefectures, preferences, prerecorded, prescreened, recuperated, recuperates, reprocessed, reprocesses, scorekeeper, supercenter, supersecret.
	+5 letters: cryopreserve, electrotyper, exteroceptor, honeycreeper, intercepters, irrespective, perseverance, pieceworkers, preceptories, precertified, precertifies, preclearance, preconcerted, predecessors, preemergence, preprocessed, preprocesses, prerecession, prescreening, reappearance, receivership, recuperative, reexperience, repercussive, retrospected, scorekeepers, spectrometer, speechwriter, supercenters, supersecrecy, supersecrets.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
2 creeper jeepers	721	creeper jeepers picture	15
jeepers creeper	630	creeper jeepers soundtrack	13
virginia creeper	245	2 creeper jeepers movie	13
creeper	190	creeper plant virginia	13
creeper shoes	110	bone creeper	13
virginia creeper trail	83	creeper lagoon lyrics	12
creeper heber	64	creeper winter	12
2 bat creeper hell jeepers like	59	creeper jeepers trailer	11
creeper lagoon	56	creeper los	11
2 creeper jeepers trailer	52	creeper picture virginia	11
2 creeper jeeper	35	creeper seat	11
creeper jeepers movie	32	creeper jeepers lyrics	11
creeper trail	25	creeper rangoon	10
creeper vine virginia	25	mechanics creeper	9
creeper jeeper	24	2 creeper jeppers	8
creeper trumpet	23	2 creeper jeepers movie trailer	8
blue star creeper	21	automotive creeper	8
creeper ii jeepers	17	2.com creeper jeepers	8
tuk creeper	17	3 creeper jeepers	8
jeeper creeper movie	16	creeper jeepers song	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Creeper

Definition: Creeper

Creeper

Noun

Specialty Definition: Creeper

Synonyms: Creeper

Synonyms within Context: Creeper

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