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  • proper noun derogatory The Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.

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Examples

  • (I changed my mind from a forest because I kept thinking that whenever I was in here [which admittedly weren't going to be a lot of time] I would keep thinking that some CREEP is hiding in the trees staring at me.

    Angels' Pawn is out! Psst...something cool in the post [Edited] Nalini Singh 2009

  • The funny thing and, I guess, the creepy thing and the committee to reelect the president in 1972 was ironically called CREEP, was that they probably didn't have to do much of anything to win that election.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • Senator Bob Dole cheerfully gave it the semi-acronym CREEP, which, after the Watergate break-in, gave that innocent name a connotation of stealth that lives with us today.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Senator Bob Dole cheerfully gave it the semi-acronym CREEP, which, after the Watergate break-in, gave that innocent name a connotation of stealth that lives with us today.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Senator Bob Dole cheerfully gave it the semi-acronym CREEP, which, after the Watergate break-in, gave that innocent name a connotation of stealth that lives with us today.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Senator Bob Dole cheerfully gave it the semi-acronym CREEP, which, after the Watergate break-in, gave that innocent name a connotation of stealth that lives with us today.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • -- but didn't the Nixon White House or Nixon's campaign organization (called CREEP, LOL) hire some jerk to go around sabotaging Democratic presidential candidates 'campaigns?

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Or - if it turned out that this was the "evil mirror universe", - maybe the conspirators of "CREEP" never got caught.

    DEEPLY FELT Toby O'B 2005

  • SEEMS LIKE YOU NEED TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN THE MIRROR, AND YOU'LL REALIZE THAT THE "CREEP" THAT YOU FEAR, IS NONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF.

    Campaign advisers quit over foreign links, meetings 2008

  • It's been a slow, unwinding perversion of language, and it's so dark and sinister that it gives me the full on CREEP now, to hear someone say, "I take him at his word."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

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