Creep (Customary Practice) definition

(1) A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

"A crawl was all that the injured man could manage"

"The traffic moved at a creep"

(2) A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

(3) A slow longitudinal movement or deformation

(4) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

(5) Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

(6) To go stealthily or furtively

"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

(7) Grow in such a way as to cover (a building)

"Ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings"

(8) Show submission or fear