creeper
n. 爬行者
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A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
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Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
爬虫
爬行动物
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A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
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A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
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A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
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A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
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A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
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An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
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Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
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Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
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A treecreeper.
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Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
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A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
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The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
Throwing it in creeper and then getting out to work alongside is strictly forbidden because it is too dangerous if anything goes wrong.
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A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
If my phone rings while I'm on a creeper underneath the car with oil on my hands, well, the caller will just have to leave a voicemail.
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A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
贬义 俚语Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.
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A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
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A ball that travels low, near ground level.
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词源
From Middle English crepere, from Old English crēopere, equivalent to creep + -er. Slang usage derived from phrase give the creeps or creep out (distinct from merely one who creeps).
来源:wiktionary