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.

Verb

(slipp)

To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.

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To err.

* Bible, Eccl. xix. 16

There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.

To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out'', ''off , etc.

A bone may slip out of place.

To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly.

She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.

To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

* Arbuthnot

He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.

Some errors slipped into the appendix.

* Prior

Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.

* Dryden

Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.

* 1883 ,

We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift

(figuratively) To move down; to slide.

Profits have slipped over the past six months.

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(falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.

* Shakespeare

Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.

(cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.

(obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.

* Ben Jonson

And slip no advantage / That may secure you.

To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.

to slip a piece of cloth or paper

* Mortimer

The branches also may be slipped and planted.

To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.

A horse slips''' his bridle; a dog '''slips his collar.

To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.