Phrase Hound found 35 phrases and 46 compound words that contain creep. The most common are listed below. Open creep in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 35
- power creepThe situation where successive updates or expansions to a game introduce more powerful units or abilities, leaving the older ones underpowered.
- bracket creepThe move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket).
- mission creepGradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.
- feature creepThe tendency of a design project or product cycle to accumulate more and more features or details, rather than to be completed and released at a more basic level.
- creep outTo make (someone) uncomfortable or afraid; to give (someone) the creeps.
- creep-shameTo shame someone by characterizing them as a creep.
- creep upTo advance or increase with stealth, unnoticed (literally or figuratively).
- Christmas creepThe inexorable tendency for the commercial aspects of Christmas to appear earlier every year.
- downhill creepThe slow downward progression of rock and soil down a low-grade slope.
- lifestyle creepThe phenomenon whereby, as more resources are spent on one's standard of living, former luxuries come to be perceived as necessities.
- scope creepUncontrolled growth in the scope or requirements of a project.
- season creepA small but significant tendency for spring to start earlier and for autumn to end later; the result of global warming.
- soil creepdownhill creep
- tip creepSynonym of tipflation: The phenomenon of tipping becoming both increasingly widespread and expensive (in terms of an acceptable percentage) in society.
- Pollyanna creepThe practice of a government modifying the way that economic measures are calculated, in order to give a more optimistic impression of economic development.
- hazard creepIncreasing risk that results from making safety systems, if those systems fail.
- make someone's flesh creepTo disgust or frighten someone.
- creep jointA brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
- text creepThe process by which a work of art (e.g. a video game) becomes overly full of text or writing, e.g. to exposit lore about the work.
- creep jointsplural of creep joint: A brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
- creep shotAlternative form of creepshot: A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.
- creep shotsplural of creep shot: A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.
- risk creepSynonym of hazard creep: Increasing risk that results from making safety systems, if those systems fail.
- creep up onTo sneakily arrive near someone in a position to startle them; to startle someone by creeping up behind them.
- creep-shamedsimple past and past participle of creep-shame
Compound words 46
- crippleCrippled.
- creepyMoving by creeping along.
- creeperA person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- EurocreepThe spreading use of the Euro as currency in countries that have not officially adopted it.
- creepazoidCreepy.
- creepmouseTimid and unassuming in the extreme.
- creepoidCreepy.
- creepifyTo make creepy; to make annoying, unpleasant, or mildly threatening.
- becreepTo creep up on; stalk
- DemocreepA Democrat.