Cheap vs. Creep

Cheap vs. Creep — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Cheap and Creep

Cheapnoun

(obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

Creepverb

(intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

Cheapnoun

(obsolete) A market; marketplace.

Creepverb

(intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

Cheapnoun

Price.

Creepverb

(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
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Cheapnoun

(obsolete) A low price; a bargain.

Creepverb

(intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

Prices have been creeping up all year.

Cheapnoun

Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

Creepverb

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

Old age creeps upon us.

Cheapadjective

Low and/or reduced in price.

Creepverb

To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
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Cheapadjective

Of poor quality.

Creepverb

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

A creeping sycophant.

Cheapadjective

Of little worth.

Creepverb

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

The sight made my flesh creep.

Cheapadjective

Underhand or unfair.

the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

Creepverb

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

Cheapadjective

Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.

Creepnoun

The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)

Cheapadjective

(finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

Creepnoun

A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

Cheapadjective

relatively low in price or charging low prices;

it would have been cheap at twice the priceinexpensive family restaurants

Creepnoun

A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something

Cheapadjective

tastelessly showy;

a flash cara flashy ringgarish colorsa gaudy costumeloud sport shirtsa meretricious yet stylish booktawdry ornaments

Creepnoun

The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

Christmas creep. Feature creep. Instruction creep. Mission creep

Cheapadjective

of very poor quality

Creepnoun

(publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.

Cheapadjective

embarrassingly stingy

Creepnoun

(materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

Creepnoun

(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

Creepnoun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Creepnoun

A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.

Stop following me, you creep!

Creepnoun

(agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Creepnoun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Creepnoun

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

Creepnoun

a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

Creepnoun

a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body);

a crawl was all that the injured man could managethe traffic moved at a creep

Creepverb

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;

The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed

Creepverb

to go stealthily or furtively;

..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

Creepverb

grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example);

ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings

Creepverb

show submission or fear