creeps

1. 1
   nounfigurativelyplural

   A scared, uneasy feeling that something is frightening or wrong.

   Like a cold shiver running down your back when you are scared.

   That empty hospital at night gives me the creeps.

   The strange noises in the attic gave the children the creeps.

   Similarwillies, shivers, horrors, heebie-jeebies

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2. 2
   nounfigurativelyplural

   An itchy, crawling feeling on your skin, as if tiny things were moving on you.

   Like feeling tiny ants walking on your arm when nothing is really there.

   Walking face-first into the spider webs gave me the creeps.

   She got the creeps when something brushed her leg in the dark water.

   Similarwillies, shivers, heebie-jeebies

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3. 3
   noun

   Plural of creep. Use this when talking about more than one unpleasant person.

   Those two creeps kept following us through the parking lot.

   The party was full of creeps, so we left early.

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4. 4
   verb

   Third-person form of creep. Use it with he, she, or it.

   The cat creeps slowly toward the unsuspecting bird.

   A thick mist creeps over the fields each morning.

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