creeper

noun creepers

1. A person or a thing that crawls or creeps. Standing Waters[…] are most unwholesome, putrified, and full of mites, creepers, slimy, muddy, uncleane, corrupt, impure, by reason of the Suns heat, and still standing;

   Similar: crawler

2. Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
3. in plural, often A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.

   Similar: babygro, creepers, diaper shirt, infant bodysuit, onesie, snapsuit

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. in 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. Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

    Similar: climber

11. A treecreeper.
12. Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
13. 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. Throwing it in creeper and then getting out to work alongside is strictly forbidden because it is too dangerous if anything goes wrong.

    Similar: creeper gear, creeper shift

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. If my phone rings while I'm on a creeper underneath the car with oil on my hands, well, the caller will just have to leave a voicemail.

    Similar: cradle

16. derogatory, slang A person who creeps people out; a creepy person. Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.

    Similar: creep, creepazoid, creepoid

17. A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
18. A ball that travels low, near ground level. May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.