CRAWLER Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

crawler

noun

ˈkrȯ-lər

Definition of crawler

as in snail

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late

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Recent Examples of crawler Giant sectionals gave space for everyone to sit in the first floor living room, with plenty of floor space for crawlers and new walkers to safely explore. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026 The design and tech company Mixfont has created Decoy Font, which promises to hide your text from AI crawlers. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 Their first game was Crawl, a dungeon-crawler game where your friends control the monsters. — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 The rise of crawlers Search engines of the era confronted the scale problem with software. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crawler

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snail

Noun

The serum has a lightweight, salmon-pink gel texture that goes on clear, with a slightly slippery consistency that reminds me of snail mucin.

— Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2026
Holed up in her brutalist home in the Swiss alps with her pet snails, she is approached by a handsome young publisher from New York (Alden Ehrenreich) with the impossible task of convincing her to write another book in her Ripley series.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026

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