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)

    “Have no lit candles in your room,”
    That love lady said,
    “That I at midnight by the clock
    May creep into your bed,
    For if I saw myself creep in
    I think I should drop dead.”
    O my dear, O my dear.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
    W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)