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| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Language: | Old Norse |
| Origin: | krafla |
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crawl1
[intransitive]
[intransitive]1HBH to move along on your hands and knees with your body close to the ground
2HBI if an insect crawls, it moves using its legs
3 to get into or out of bed slowly because you are very tired : We crawled into bed at 2 am.
crawl into/out of bed
We crawled into bed at 2 am.4TT if a vehicle crawls, it moves forward very slowly
5 British English informal to be too pleasant or helpful to someone in authority, especially because you want them to help you - used in order to show disapproval
6 to be completely covered with insects, people etc : The floor was crawling with ants. The whole place was crawling with cops.
be crawling with something
The floor was crawling with ants.The whole place was crawling with cops.7TD if a computer program crawls the Net, it quickly searches the Internet to find the particular information you need [↪ spider]: robots that crawl the net searching out e-mail addresses for junk mailing
crawl the Net/web
robots that crawl the net searching out e-mail addresses for junk mailing