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creep verb- to work as a sneak-thief US, 1928
- Sapphire Harris, the King of Creeps, had crept a gaff on a tip-off passed on to him by Larry[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 191, 1956
- to ambush someone with the intent of seriously injuring or killing them US
Prison usage. - — Paul Glover, Words from the House of the Dead, 1974
- Y’all niggas ain’t gonna creep me! — Earl “DMX” Simmons, E.A.R.L., p. 236, 2002
- to attempt to have a secret sexual relationship with someone’s boyfriend or girlfriend US
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- to be sexually unfaithful US
- — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 61, 1972
- to dance UK
A late 1950s usage, not necessarily in reference to “the Creep,” a short-lived 1950s dance sensation. - to escape US
- Still even those who managed to creep were reapprehended with stifling regularity. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 205, 1967
- to pursue someone sexually US
- “Pauly was creeping on those girls all night, he was in full on creep mode!” — media.gunaxin.com, 29 January 2010: The Jersey Shore Dictionary
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