creep
kreep
- n someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- n a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- n a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- n a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
the traffic moved at a creep - v move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- v to go stealthily or furtively
- v grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
- v show submission or fear
- I think that that's mission creep.
- How does boxing creep back into the cultural consciousness after a five-year dizzy spell? Easy.
- Westerwelle is determined to avoid mission creep in Afghanistan.