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creep noun (PERSON)
› [ C ] UK someone who tries to make someone more important like them by being very polite and helpful in a way that is not sincere:
C2 [ C ] an unpleasant person, especially a man:
[ as form of address ] Leave me alone, creep!
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Praising insincerely or too eagerly
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creep noun (GROWTH)
give sb the creeps
› to cause someone to have uncomfortable feelings of nervousness or fear:
Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.
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- chill
- chill sb to the bone/marrow idiom
- cow
- curdle
- daylight
- flesh
- frighten
- frighten sb into sth
- overawe
- petrify
- put the fear of God into you idiom
- put/get the wind up sb idiom
- scare
- scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of sb idiom
- send chills down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shivers down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shudders/a shudder down your spine idiom
- shiver (up and) down your spine idiom
- shudder
- wit
