creep

creep

1. slang An irritatingly unsettling, unpleasant, or contemptible person. That creep has been bothering us all night. Let's go ask the bouncer to deal with him. His comments about women were pretty disgusting. What a total creep.
2. slang One who observes, investigates, or becomes overly familiar with someone else's personal matters in an intrusive or undesirable manner. I felt like a bit of a creep looking up all his social media posts like that, but I wanted to know what he was like before going on a date with him.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

creep

n. a weird person; an eerie person. Charlie is such a creep when he’s stoned.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • creep
  • creep across
  • creep across (something)
  • creep along
  • creep along (something)
  • creep away
  • creep by
  • creep dive
  • creep in
  • creep into
  • creep joint
  • creep on (someone or something)
  • creep out
  • creep over
  • creep over (someone or something)
  • creep under
  • creep under (something)
  • creep up
  • creep up on
  • creep up on (someone or something)
  • get the creeps
  • give (one) the creeps
  • give (one) the heebie-jeebies
  • give (one) the willies
  • give somebody the willies/heebie-jeebies/creeps
  • give someone the creeps
  • make (one's) flesh creep
  • make one's flesh creep
  • make someone's flesh creep
  • make your flesh creep
  • make your flesh creep/crawl
  • mission creep
  • out of the woodwork
  • the creeps
  • When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
  • when the wolf comes in (at) the door, love creeps out (of) the window
References in periodicals archive
At 114 d of gestation, sows were allotted to a farrowing crate (2.5x1.8 [m.sup.2]) and a 4-hole stainless still feeder (60x20x25 cm) was installed in each farrowing crate for provision of creep feed.
The Creep treatment diet contained 61.8% milk product with 3,372 ME kcal/kg, 21% crude protein, 1.66% lysine, and 0.43% methionine.
To determine the creep characteristics of the coal samples with different moisture contents, the coal samples were divided into three groups, and there are three samples in each group, from among which, one group was selected as the natural coal samples (determination of moisture content was 0.78%), while the other two groups were subjected to high temperature drying.
The creep test was conducted on the AGX250KN rock servo test machine using the hierarchical loading method.
(1978) studied the bending deflection of wood; the results showed that the creep strain resulting from load change with time, in the linear stress level range, could be predicted by the numerical calculation method.
where [J.sub.0] is the instantaneous creep compliance and J(t) is creep compliance after the time t.
Supplementation of creep feed to the nursing kids can enhance rumen development so that at weaning their rumens developed already.
"Although I know my song wasn't inspired by 'Creep', Radiohead feel it was and want 100% of the publishing - I offered up to 40 over the last few months but they will only accept 100.
"Creep" was Radiohead's debut single, propelling the Oxford-based band to stardom.
A thermal-hydrological-mechanical-reactive flow coupling testing system is used to perform creep tests with acid and alkaline solution injection, and the sketch diagram of this testing system is presented in Figure 4.
Figure 10 shows creep rupture test results for cast Haynes 282 alloy compared to that of wrought alloy; the results for wrought alloy were taken from data provided by Haynes International [1].
An improved strain control triaxial apparatus of TSZ-6A was used to test the creep behavior of the samples (Figure 1).
Since experimental investigation of the creep behavior of the adhesively bonded joints are time consuming and expensive; hence, creep behavior of single lap bonded joints has been investigated using different analytical and finite element approaches [2, 11-14].