Creep

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:

    The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.
    James Ellroy (b. 1948)

    The awful shadow of some unseen Power
    Floats though unseen among us, visiting
    This various world with as inconstant wing
    As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)