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  • noun Plural form of creeper.

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Examples

  • “The shoes were called creepers and they were very cool.”

    Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

  • “The shoes were called creepers and they were very cool.”

    Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

  • “The shoes were called creepers and they were very cool.”

    Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

  • I noticed another peculiarity, -- there was little underbrush, little of the luxuriance of vines and creepers, which is so striking in an African forest.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • Among the creepers are the Crimson Rambler Rose and the Honeysuckle.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden 1903

  • The creepers are a great advantage in the matter of speed, but they need long points.

    The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Hudson Stuck 1891

  • I lifted my head a little and peeped over a mass of creepers; beyond the creepers was a dense bush of sharp-pointed aloes, of that kind of which the leaves project laterally, and on the other side of the aloes, not fifteen paces from us, I made out the horns, neck, and the ridge of the back of a tremendous old bull.

    Maiwa's Revenge Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • But while most of the foliage is gaining in brilliancy, bare limbs are already seen here and there; the Virginia creepers are all but leafless, so are the black walnuts; and the balm of Gilead poplar is losing its large leaves.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • I noticed another peculiarity, -- there was little underbrush, little of the luxuriance of vines and creepers, which is so striking in an African forest.

    Found and Lost Anonymous 1860

  • I noticed another peculiarity, — there was little underbrush, little of the luxuriance of vines and creepers, which is so striking in an African forest.

    Found and Lost 1860

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