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creeps

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //kɹiːps//

A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of creepplural of creep

noun

  1. 1

    A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.

  2. 2

    figurativeA feeling or sensation of fear or horror.

    I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight.

    "I wish it was well over," admitted Hollyer. "I'm not particularly jumpy, but this gives me a touch of the creeps."

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of creepthird-person singular simple present indicative of creep

Forms

plural
the creeps
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).