Creep

Creep may refer to:

  • CREEP, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, associated with the Watergate scandal of U.S. president Nixon's administration.
  • Creep (project management), the jeopardizing of a project's initial objectives by an increase in overall objectives.

In science:

  • Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses.
  • Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low grade slope.
  • Aseismic creep, a slow steady movement along an earthquake fault.
  • Creep, advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip.
  • Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to crawl up the walls of its container.
  • Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems

In video games:

  • Creep (Starcraft), an organic ground cover necessary for constructing structures by the Zerg race in Starcraft


In film:

  • Creeps (1956 film), a short starring the Three Stooges.
  • Night of the Creeps, a 1986 comedy sci-fi horror film.
  • Creep (film), a 2005 British horror film.

In music:

  • "The Creep," a 1950s instrumental by Ken Mackintosh
  • "Creep" (Mobb Deep song), by Mobb Deep.
  • "Creep" (Radiohead song), by Radiohead.
  • "Creep" (Stone Temple Pilots song), by Stone Temple Pilots.
  • "Creep" (TLC song), by TLC.
  • "Creep," a song by Dannii Minogue on the album Neon Nights
  • "The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)," a song by the Freaks.
  • "The Creeps," a song by Camille Jones and Fedde le Grand.
  • "The Creep" (song), by The Lonely Island.
  • "C.R.E.E.P.," a song by The Fall

Famous quotes containing the word creep:

    “Have no lit candles in your room,”
    That love lady said,
    “That I at midnight by the clock
    May creep into your bed,
    For if I saw myself creep in
    I think I should drop dead.”
    O my dear, O my dear.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    POET
    If not in a place, where are the People weeping?
    LIBERAL
    They creep weeping in the face, not place.
    POET
    Is it something with which we may cope
    The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    She sings of a sword so white,
    so luminous, that its own light
    alone must slay;
    she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword,
    and I creep away.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)