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crawler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crawler has 3 senses
- crawler(n = noun.person) ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady - a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; Array has particulars: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler, goody-goody
- crawler(n = noun.person) creeper - a person who crawls or creeps along the ground; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- crawler(n = noun.animal) angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler - terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers; Array is a member of class oligochaeta, oligochaeta
is a kind of adulator, flatterer
Derived form verb crawl4
Derived form verb crawl1
is a kind of oligochaete, oligochaete worm
Derived form verb crawl1
CIDE DICTIONARY
crawler, n.
One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
crawler, n.
1 sl. a person who behaves obsequiously in the hope of advantage.
2 anything that crawls, esp. an insect.
3 a tractor moving on an endless chain.
4 (usu. in pl.) esp. US a baby's overall for crawling in; rompers.
1 sl. a person who behaves obsequiously in the hope of advantage.
2 anything that crawls, esp. an insect.
3 a tractor moving on an endless chain.
4 (usu. in pl.) esp. US a baby's overall for crawling in; rompers.
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