creep

Definitions

• (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
• (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
• (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
• (intransitive) 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.
• (intransitive) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.