Meaning

• To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

• Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

• To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

• To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

• To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

• To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

• To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

• To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

• To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

• To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.