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Creep is a related term of trip.


As a proper noun creep

is (derogatory) the committee]] to re-elect the president, which raised money for [[w:richard nixon|richard nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.

As a noun trip is

trip.

creep

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crepen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
    • Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • 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.
  • Of plants, 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.
  • 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.
  • * John Locke
    • the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument
  • To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
    • The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
    The quicksilver on a mirror may creep .
  • To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
    • a creeping sycophant
  • * Shakespeare
    • to come as humbly as they used to creep
  • To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
    • The sight made my flesh creep .
  • To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
    • Synonyms
    * (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) crawl * (grow across a surface rather than upwards) * (move slowly and quietly in a particular direction) * (make small gradual changes)
    Derived terms
    * creep up on * creepy / creepy-crawly * give someone the creeps * creep someone out

    Etymology 2

    From the above verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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'''. Instruction '''creep'''. Mission ' creep
  • (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
  • (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
  • (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
  • (informal, pejorative) An annoying irritating person
  • (informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
    • Stop following me, you creep !
  • (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
    • Derived terms
    * bracket creep * Christmas creep * feature creep * focus creep * function creep ((function creep)) * instruction creep ((instruction creep)) * mission creep ((mission creep)) * requirement creep ((requirement creep)) * scope creep * season creep

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    trip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
  • A stumble or misstep.
  • (figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.
  • * (John Milton)
    • Imperfect words, with childish trips .
  • * Harte
    • Each seeming trip , and each digressive start.
  • A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
  • A faux pas, a social error.
  • Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
  • (engineering) A mechanical or electrical cutout device.
  • A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
  • (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer)
    • A trip of cheese.
  • The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
  • * South
    • It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
  • (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
  • (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
    • (Robert of Brunne)
  • A flock of wigeons.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * bad trip * boat trip * business trip * day trip * ego trip * fam trip * field trip * guilt trip * head trip * power trip * road trip * round trip * trip down memory lane * trip hop * trippy * trip to the woodshed

    Verb

  • To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
    • Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
  • To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
    • A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
  • To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc.
  • * John Locke
    • till his tongue trip
  • * South
    • A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
  • * Dryden
    • Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip , but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
  • (obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These her women can trip me if I err.
  • To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
    • When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
  • To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
    • The alarm system tripped , throwing everyone into a panic.
  • To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
    • After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
  • To journey, to make a trip.
    • Last summer we tripped to the coast.
  • (dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
  • * Milton
    • Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.
  • * Dryden
    • She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
  • (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
  • (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

    • Derived terms

    * trip out * trip over * tripper * trip the light fantastic * trip up * tripwire

    Adjective

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  • (poker slang) Of or relating to .
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