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crawler

[ kraw-ler ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that crawls.
Digital Technology. web crawler ( def ).
Also called crawler tractor. any of various large, heavy vehicles or machines that are propelled on endless belts or tracks, especially as used in construction.
hellgrammite.
Often crawlers. a garment with long pants, short sleeves or suspender straps, and sometimes feet for a baby who does not yet walk.
Australian Slang. sycophant.

crawler

/ ˈkrɔːlə /

slang.
a servile flatterer
a person or animal that crawls
See earthworm
an informal name for earthworm
a computer program that is capable of performing recursive searches on the Internet
plural a baby's overalls; rompers

Origin of crawler¹

1640–50; 1925–30 crawler fordef 4; crawl ¹ + -er ¹

“Prevent any temper tantrums by keeping baby in this Happy Happy Happy Crawler,” the site says of this product.

Instead, it says, it will “reboot” the franchise, focusing on a teenage wall crawler.

The party in the boat sent their small craft flying toward the spot where the crawler had sunk.

And my young Claude being a cripple for life, 'is father kicking 'im when he was a crawler in one of 'is drunken fits.

Please, sir, Nancy Toomey has been calling you a carroty-headed crawler.

Nancy Toomey has been calling me a carroty-headed crawler, has she?

When dinner time came there was served some of the turtle soup from the big crawler that had pulled on Flossies dress.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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