Meanings
- uncountabletrucking; heavy industry; trucking; heavy industryagricultureThe lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.
Near-synonym: low gear
Synonyms: granny gear, LO, low gear
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.
Origin
So called because the vehicle creeps in the mechanical sense of that word: it moves very slowly, such that a person on foot can outwalk it, for example.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
creeper gear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/creeper%20gear
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