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Definition: Crawl In |
Crawl InVerb1. Go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Crawl InSynonyms: get into bed (v), go to bed (v), go to sleep (v), hit the hay (v), hit the sack (v), kip down (v), retire (v), sack out (v), turn in (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: get up (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crawl In |
| Specialty definitions using "crawl in": Crawl. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | ! Why, so you can crawl in after I've gone? (The Accountant; writing credit: Andrew White) | |
Lyrics | Creatures crawl in search of blood (Thriller; performing artist: Michael Jackson) | |
Clever | Church members are either pillars or caterpillars: the pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | NOAA helicopter pilots do the darndest things! I think I'll crawl in this hole and find out what's there Photo #1 of sequence Operations off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Japan | Together with the demands by manufacturers for just-in-time parts and components delivery from subcontractors, this results in huge numbers of trucks on inadequate urban roads and highways during daytime business hours, slowing traffic to a crawl in major urban centers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crawl crawl in worm worm | 11 |
crawl in space water | 8 |
crawl in worm | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crawl in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пропълзявам в. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vlézt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bemászik (to crawl in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awlcray inay вползти. (various references) dopuzati (crawl over, creep in). (various references) smyga in, krypa in (creep in, nestle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: carlin. | |
-2 letters: cairn, crawl, linac, naric, rawin. | |
-3 letters: airn, anil, aril, cain, carl, carn, clan, claw, craw, laic, lain, lair, lari, lawn, liar, lira, nail, narc, rail, rain, rani, rial, wail, wain, wair, warn. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, air, ani, arc, awl, awn, can, car, caw, lac, lar, law, lin, naw, nil, ran, raw, ria. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: crawling. | |
+2 letters: clearwing, scrawling. | |
+3 letters: becrawling, clearwings, lawrencium. | |
+4 letters: lawrenciums, lowercasing, outcrawling, racewalking. | |
+5 letters: cartwheeling, caterwauling, cowardliness, flowcharting, racewalkings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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