<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that creeps</li><li>a plant that grows upon or just beneath the surface of the ground, or upon any other surface, sending out rootlets from the stem, as ivy and couch grass</li><li>Often creepers</li><li>a one-piece garment for an infant, the lower portion resembling briefs or having legs extending to the knees, with snaps across the crotch for convenience in diapering</li><li>Chiefly Northeastern U.S. a spiked iron plate worn on the shoe to prevent slipping on ice, rock, etc.</li><li>Also called brothel creeper</li><li>Informal. a shoe with a thick, soft sole: She wore a miniskirt and creepers</li><li>Also called cradle</li><li>a flat framework on casters, on which a mechanic lies while working under an automobile or the like</li><li>any of various birds that creep or climb about on trees, especially of the family Certhiidae, as Certhia americana brown creeper, or tree creeper, of the Northern Hemisphere</li><li>a domestic fowl having malformed, short legs, due to a genetic defect</li><li>a grappling device for dragging a river, lake, etc.</li><li>Also creep</li><li>a sneak thief</li><li>a person who makes persistent sexual advances toward someone, or who cheats on a sexual partner</li><li>a person who follows someone persistently or stealthily; a stalker</li></ul>