creep

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Just the fact that Bush allowed bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora, pulling the Tenth Mountain away from their imminent capture of the creep should be a rather significant hint.

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  1. intransitive verb To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
  2. intransitive verb To move stealthily or cautiously.
  3. intransitive verb To move or proceed very slowly: Traffic creeps at that hour.
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  • The only "voiceless individual" that deserves to have some say about this creep is Mary Jo Kopechne. —  CNN Political Ticker
  • I felt infinitely more safe with him in the White House than I do with this creep, and far more positive in general about the country. —  Latest Articles
  • Just the fact that Bush allowed bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora, pulling the Tenth Mountain away from their imminent capture of the creep should be a rather significant hint. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • Feature creep is all well and good if it doesn't slow down the program, and actually enhances it's usability in some important way. —  Fileforum
  • His routine included a bizarre ratty paedo-creep, endless puffing and panting and a move that involved him flapping about on his back like he was having a heart attack. —  Hecklerspray
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creep:   crept ·  creeping ·  creeps
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan.

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  1. from Middle English crepen (preterit crep, crap, crope, plural crupe, cropen, crope, past participle cropen, crope), from Anglo-Saxon creópan (preterit creáp, plural crupon, past participle cropen), creep, crawl, = Old Saxon kriopan = OFries. kriapa = Dutch kruipen = Middle Low German Low German krupen = Icelandic krjūpa = Swedish krypa = Danish krybe = (with ch from k = p) Old High German chriochan, Middle High German G. kriechen, creep.
  2. from creep, v.
 

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