CREEPERS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

creepers

noun

plural of creeper

as in crawlers

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Noun

Everyone took the Meta keyword tag seriously and the practice of utilizing ‘white text on a white background’ to hide hidden keywords was a legitimate tactic that webmasters would use to include keywords in their website for search engine crawlers.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
The website security provider helps companies protect against AI crawlers.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of crawlers

Noun

Scientists rescued 34 endangered humped tree snails from Guam by collecting them in empty peanut butter jars ahead of a powerful typhoon.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
She and her hundreds of pet snails are visited by a young man named Edward Ridgeway (Alden Ehrenreich) who has been sent by her American publisher to convince her to sign a contract to write one more Ripley novel.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of snails

Noun

Earnings season is winding down, but a few stragglers in the portfolio are still left to report this week.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2026
On the streets below, vendors are hawking bootleg merchandise as stragglers from the festivities color the sidewalks with blue-and-orange jerseys and hats.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of stragglers

Noun

Instead, the problem is that these slowpokes haven’t been nearly as efficient.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Much of the drama is undermined by the odd choice to have the characters explain exactly what is happening (presumably for the slowpokes in the back).

— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026

Definition of slowpokes

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