creep : Idioms & Phrases

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bracket creep

  • noun a movement into a higher tax bracket as taxable income increases
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creep feed

  • noun feed given to young animals isolated in a creep
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creep in

  • verb enter surreptitiously
    sneak in.
    • He sneaked in under cover of darkness
    • In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in
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creep up

  • verb advance stealthily or unnoticed
    sneak up.
    • Age creeps up on you
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creeping bellflower

  • noun erect European herb with creeping rootstocks and nodding spikelike racemes of blue to violet flowers
    Campanula rapunculoides.
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creeping bent

  • noun common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
    Agrostis palustris; creeping bent.
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creeping bentgrass

  • noun common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
    Agrostis palustris; creeping bent.
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creeping bugle

  • noun low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States
    Ajuga reptans.
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creeping buttercup

  • noun perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
    creeping buttercup; Ranunculus repens.
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creeping charlie

  • noun a loosestrife vine
    creeping Charlie; moneywort; Lysimachia nummularia.
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creeping crowfoot

  • noun perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
    creeping buttercup; Ranunculus repens.
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creeping fern

  • noun delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds
    Hartford fern; Lygodium palmatum.
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creeping jenny

  • noun a loosestrife vine
    creeping Charlie; moneywort; Lysimachia nummularia.
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creeping juniper

  • noun low to prostrate shrub of Canada and northern United States; bronzed purple in winter
    Juniperus horizontalis.
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creeping lily

  • noun any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous
    climbing lily; gloriosa; glory lily; Gloriosa superba.
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creeping oxalis

  • noun creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
    creeping oxalis; Oxalis corniculata.
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creeping snowberry

  • noun slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds
    Gaultheria hispidula; maidenhair berry; moxie plum.
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creeping soft grass

  • noun European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage
    Holcus mollis.
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creeping spike rush

  • noun cylindrical-stemmed sedge
    Eleocharis palustris.
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creeping st john's wort

  • noun creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover
    Hypericum calycinum.
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creeping thistle

  • noun European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed
    Canada thistle; Cirsium arvense.
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creeping thyme

  • noun aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe; naturalized in United States
    wild thyme; Thymus serpyllum.
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creeping willow

  • noun small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated
    Salix repens.
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creeping windmill grass

  • noun perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
    windmill grass; star grass; Chloris truncata.
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creeping wintergreen

  • noun creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
    teaberry; wintergreen; ground-berry; groundberry; Gaultheria procumbens; checkerberry; mountain tea.
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creeping wood sorrel

  • noun creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
    creeping oxalis; Oxalis corniculata.
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creeping zinnia

  • noun low-branching leafy annual with flower heads resembling zinnias; found in southwestern United States and Mexico to Guatemala
    Sanvitalia procumbens.
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