creeper

noun18

1. •
   A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.

   • Standing Waters[…] are most unwholesome, putrified, and full of mites, creepers, slimy, muddy, uncleane, corrupt, impure, by reason of the Suns heat, and still standing — 1638
2. •
   Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.

   • Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. — 1964
3. •
   (slang, offensive) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.

   • Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.
4. •
   Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
5. •
   A treecreeper.
6. •
   A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
7. •
   A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.

   • If my phone rings while I'm on a creeper underneath the car with oil on my hands, well, the caller will just have to leave a voicemail.
8. •
   [in the plural] A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
9. •
   A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
10. •
    A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
11. •
    A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
12. •
    The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.

    • Throwing it in creeper and then getting out to work alongside is strictly forbidden because it is too dangerous if anything goes wrong.
13. •
    A ball that travels low, near ground level.
14. •
    An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
15. •
    A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
16. •
    Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
17. •
    [in the plural] A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
18. •
    Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.