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Creep, Creeps or CREEP may refer to:

People

  • Creep, a creepy person

Politics

  • Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP), an organization associated with the Watergate scandal of U.S. president Nixon's administration

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Creeps (film), a 1956 short starring the Three Stooges
  • The Creeps (film), a 1997 film directed by Charles Band
  • Creep (2004 film), a 2004 British-German horror film
  • Creep (2014 film), an American found-footage horror film
    • Creep 2, 2017 American found-footage horror film; sequel to the 2014 film

Gaming

  • "Creep", a carpet of bio-matter Zerg colonies produce in the StarCraft video game franchise

Literature

  • Creeps (novel), 2013 young adult novel by Darren Hynes
  • The Creeping, 2015 young adult novel by Alexandra Sirowy

Music

Groups

  • Creep (band), American electronic music band
  • Deli Creeps, an avant-garde band from San Francisco (1990–2007)
  • The Creeps (Swedish band), 1980s band that won the Rockbjörnen prize in 1990
  • The Creeps (South African band), 1960s band featuring David Kramer

Albums

  • Creeps (Indian Handcrafts album), 2015 album from Indian Handcrafts

Songs

Project management

  • Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
  • Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
  • Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
  • Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

  • Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses.
  • Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see rail adhesion
  • Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault.
  • Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope.
  • Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems
  • Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container

See also

  • Creeper (disambiguation)
  • Creepshow (disambiguation)
  • Creepy (disambiguation)
  • KREEP (coined from abbreviations for "potassium", "rare-earth elements", and "phosphorus"), component of some lunar rocks
  • Von Kreepsula, a fictional comic book from Mona the Vampire as well as an antagonist of the same name
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