crawl with

crawl with (someone or something)

To be filled or covered with people or things in motion. Ugh, the mall is crawling with teenagers tonight—let's get out of here. We took off running when we realized that the tree stump was crawling with bugs.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crawl with

v.
To be swarming or covered with moving things: The accident scene was crawling with police officers.
See also: crawl
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (something) blows
  • chip off
  • a fire extinguisher
  • be on (one's) back
  • be on somebody's back
  • be on someone's back
  • (I'm) sorry I asked
  • buttmunch
  • butt-munch
  • a whole thing
References in periodicals archive
THE Southport Comedy Festival's pub crawl with a twist is back and bigger than ever this year, with four crawls scheduled for 2018.
Is it possible that a crawl with an aversive appeal will make a viewer averse to the commercial, brand, or product?
"We're thrilled that Sage Gateshead is supporting Culture Crawl with popup performance along the route and that The Biscuit Factory and Newcastle Castle are staying open late to welcome our walkers into their venues."
"We're thrilled Sage Gateshead is supporting Culture Crawl with popup performance along the route and The Biscuit Factory and Newcastle Castle are staying open late to welcome our walkers into their venues."
THE VERDICT In Shaun of the Dead they tackled zombies, in Hot Fuzz they took on small-town police and mobsters but for their latest dose of laddish camaraderie Pegg, Frost and director Edgar Wright take on their biggest challenge - a pub crawl with the end of the world at stake.
Onlookers screamed in horror as the 25-year-old England ace bounced off the windscreen of the doubledecker while on a mammoth pub crawl with team-mates.
Hypothesis: There are significant differences in terms of cervical-brachial muscle activity of the right shoulder during the performance of crawling and swimming to crawl with and without tube in healthy subjects.
Molly Nicholson was another multi-event winner in the girls' Under 10s, while Cathryn Powell made a splash in the Ladies Plunge and Ladies Championship and Chantelle Samuels took the honours in the 8 and 9 years breaststroke and back crawl with two awards.
For the evaluation we used a crawl with about 2000 documents, for which we had filtered and unfiltered content available.
Your skin, hair, and gut continually crawl with microscopic bacteria (single-cell organisms), fungi (FUN-guy, single cell or multicellular organisms such as mold and yeast), and viruses (nonliving particles that invade and reproduce in a living cell).