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noun a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
verb move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
verb to go stealthily or furtively
originFrom Middle English crepynge, crepinde, crepende, crepande, from Old English crēopende, from Proto-Germanic *kreupandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to creep, crawl”), equivalent to creep + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0