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Definition: Creeps |
CreepsNoun1. A disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait. 2. (informal) a feeling of fear and revulsion; "he gives me the creeps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "creeps" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Minor tingling, itching or formication occurring alone or, rarely, as the precursors of more severe types of decompression sickness. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Course | Phrase: labitur et labetur; truditur dies die; fugaces labuntur anni; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Creeps |
| English words defined with "creeps": crawler, creep up, creeper ♦ Looping snail ♦ sneak up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "creeps": Owl. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "creeps": troglodyte. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The big deal is that the guy gives me the creeps, and the girl is my daughter. (Fear; writing credit: Christopher Crowe) I don't get off on funerals man, they give me creeps. (Phantasm; writing credit: Don Coscarelli) Vampires are creeps. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Think we'll hear from those creeps again? (Mighty Ducks; writing credit: Eric Knight) This place gives me the creeps. Why do you think the boss uses this as our hideout? (The Human Tornado; writing credit: Jerry Jones) | |
Lyrics | You give me the creeps (Get Down; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) No more late night creeps (No More; performing artist: Ruff Endz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Creeps (1956) The Phantom Creeps (1949) Professor Creeps (1942) The Cat Creeps (1930) Night of the Creeps (1986) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. |
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| "Creeps" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 56.04% of the time. "Creeps" is used about 91 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 (plural) | 56.04% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 43.96% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "creeps". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zoheleth | N/A | Biblical | That creeps |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "creeps": give one the creeps ♦ give smb. the creeps ♦ it gives me the creeps. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "creeps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të ngjethura (shivering, shivers, shudders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لصوص. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тръпки (chill, rigor, shivers, thrill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 爬行 (Crawl, Crawled, Crawling, Creeping, Crept, scramble, scrambled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | husí kùže (goose flesh, goose pimples, goose-skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kriblende paraestesier ved dykkersyge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | jeuk (itch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puces, fourmillements. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schleicht (skulks, slinks, sneaks, tiptoes), kriecht (crawls, cringes, grovels, toadies, truckles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανατριχίλα (chill, gooseflesh, horror, quiver, shiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'רום צמרמורת (give one the creeps, give the chills). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | libabőr (goose-flesh), hidegrázás (cold shivers, horror, rigor, shake, shivering-fit), borzongás (frisson, horripilation, horror, rigor, shiver, shudder, shuddering, thrill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gelinggaman (get the creeps, shudder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pelle d'oca (cold turkey, cutis anserina, goose flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 긴다. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepscray formigueiro (anthill, formicary, formication, pricking, swarm, tingle), formigamento (formication, pricking, puncture), arrepio (chill, dither, gooseflesh, goose-skin, horripilation, rigor, shiver, shudder, thrill), apreensão (apprehension, apprehensiveness, arrest, capture, misgiving, prehension, seizing, seizure, sense, sequestration). (various references) furnicãturã (formication, tingle, tingling). (various references) содрогание (jim-jams, shudder, wince). (various references) strah (alarm, dread, fear, fright, funk, trepidation, wind up), jeza (chill, horror, shiver, shudder). (various references) personas aburridas, hormigueo (itching, pins and needles, pricking, prickling, tingle), grima (aversion, disgust, irritation, uneasiness). (various references) kryper. (various references) ürperti vermek (give one the creeps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Creeps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceps, cere, Ceriph, creap, creefs, creepe, creepes, creesh, creesp, creips, crep, Crepsi, cryp, crype, cryps, crys, kreep, kreeps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "creeps" (pronounced krē"ps) |
| 4 | -r ē" p s | reaps. |
| 3 | -ē" p s | beeps, heaps, jeeps, keeps, leaps, peeps, seeps, sleeps, sweeps, weeps. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crepes. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cepes, ceres, creep, crepe, peers, perse, prees, prese, scree, speer, spree. | |
-2 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, cere, pecs, peer, pees, pree, recs, rees, reps, seep, seer, sere, spec. | |
-3 letters: cee, cep, ere, ers, pec, pee, per, pes, rec, ree, rep, res, sec, see, ser. | |
-4 letters: er, es, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: escaper, peckers, perches, piecers, pierces, precess, precise, recepts, recipes, respace, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre, spencer. | |
+2 letters: caperers, cheepers, compeers, comperes, creepers, creepies, crepiest, cupelers, cypreses, epicures, escapers, escarped, excerpts, peachers, percales, percents, percepts, perchers, perfects, pickeers, piercers, preaches, precedes, precents, precepts, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, precodes, precures, prefaces, prefects, prelects, prepuces, prescore, presence, preslice, proceeds, receipts, recopies, replaces, reprices, respaced, respaces, respects, resplice, scepters, sceptred, sceptres, specters, spectres, spencers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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