What is the meaning of CREEPER. Phrases containing CREEPER
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Creepers is slang for body lice.
Brothel creepers is British slang for shoes with thick crepe soles.
Creeper is British slang for a thief who specialises in robbing hotels or brothels. Creeper is British slang for a soft−soled shoe.Creeper is British slang for a slow acting drug.
Noun. Thick rubber soled shoes, fashionable with the Teddy Boys and rockers of the 1950s, and revived in the 1980s.
Oh my God or another way of saying far out
Popular sort of footwear with very thick flat rubber soles that allow you to walk almost silently. Very useful for creeping up behind people to give them wedgies or cop a feel. Similar to the platform soles favoured by "Baby Spice" but worn (usu.) by males. (ed: I used to wear these in the 1960's and got nicknamed 'creeping jesus' by my mates)
Noun. Sandals.
Flat soled sandals, (the sole is similar to that of the 'brothel creeper' but with a thinner profile)
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A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
v. i.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
n.
One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
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A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
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One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.
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Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
n.
Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.
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A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
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Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
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Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
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Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
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Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.
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A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
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Crockets. See Crocket.
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An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
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A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
n. pl.
A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
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Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
n.
Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests.
v. t.
The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.
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