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creep2 [countable]
1 informal especially American English someone who you dislike extremely : 
Get lost, you little creep!
Get lost, you little creep!2 British English informal someone who tries to make you like them or do things for them by being insincerely nice to you : Don't try and flatter her - she doesn't approve of creeps.
Don't try and flatter her - she doesn't approve of creeps.3 if a person or place gives you the creeps, they make you feel nervous and a little frightened, especially because they are strange : That house gives me the creeps.
give somebody the creeps
That house gives me the creeps.4 when something gradually starts to go beyond what it was intended to deal with or include : He denied that giving civilian tasks to the NATO forces was a case of mission creep.
mission/cost/grade etc creep
He denied that giving civilian tasks to the NATO forces was a case of mission creep.