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 (18651939)
“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 (18991979)
“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 (18861961)
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