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creeper
noun- a burglar US, 1906
- Bill had been a creeper at one time, who had made his living by breaking into homes and apartments. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 36, 1968
- He was a daytime hotel creeper and hitting maybe four to six hotel rooms in the best downtown hotels every time he went to work. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 20, 1973
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 41, 1996
- a prostitute or prostitute’s accomplice who steals from the clothes of the prostitute’s customer UK
- “And what about the two creepers -?” “Not my friends[.]” — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 167, 1984
- a marijuana cigarette US
- — Jim Emerson-Cobb, Scratching the Dragon, April 1997
- in trucking, a very low gear US, 1937
- — Mary Elting, Trucks at Work, 1946
- — American Speech, p. 42, February 1963: “Trucker’s language in Rhode Island”
- in car repair, a platform on casters that allows a mechanic to lie on their back and roll under a car to work on it US
- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcyle Slang, p. 57, 1992
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