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1. A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
2. Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
3. (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
4. A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
5. A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
6. A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
7. (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
8. An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
9. Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
10. Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
11. A treecreeper.
12. Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
13. (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
14. The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
15. A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
16. (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
17. A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
18. (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.