creepy crawler

plural creepy crawlers

1. informalSynonym of creepy-crawly.

   I'd never been afraid of creepy crawlers before, ...

   2007, Linda Ladd, Dark Places, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN

   5 more examples

   Lily: I couldn't just abandon my friends to this creepy crawler!

   1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Dreaded Human Spider" (season 1, episode 5a)

   They happen to be those creepy crawlers. Those animals could not come into the garden for the time being, but as sure as I kept hanging there in mid air, one of those crawlers would find its way into the garden.

   2008, Debi Toporoff, When God Came Down, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 33

   “After the nice place is a more evil place, a desert filled with caves and creepy black mansions. It is filled with ghosts, trolls, evil wizards and witches, pirates living in the murky waters, and terrible traps and poisonous creepy crawlers everywhere.

   2009, Grace Templeton, Katherine's Quest, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

   When he opened the front door, there were several of these creepy crawlers exploring our entry way.

   2011, Patricia Monasmith, Unearthed: Digging the Jewels of Sobriety from the Trenches of Addiction, iUniverse, →ISBN

   Besides angels and demons type creatures, he especially had an obsession with creepy crawlers and all those insects that would make anybody run away in a really crazed fashion.

   2012, A. Rodriguez, Johnny the Eternal: A Dawn in Darkness, iUniverse, →ISBN

   Synonyms: creepy-crawly