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crawl verb- to behave sycophantically AUSTRALIA, 1880
- He fears no one, crawls to no one, bludges on no one, and acknowledges no master. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 204, 1957
- So what makes you think I’ll crawl to you? — Janie Stagestruck, p. 113, 1972
- Well, yes, she (and we) certainly crawled to Ron [US President Ronald Reagan] very humiliatingly indeed. — Guardian, 20 April 2001
- to search somewhere US
- But the dresser had been pulled out, and the three scrapbooks stacked across it had been replaced unevenly, one upside down. The pad had been crawled. — James Ellroy, Suicide Hill, p. 740, 1986
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