Creep, Creeps or CREEP may refer to:

People

* Creep, a creepy person

Politics

Committee for the Re-Election of the President The Committee for the Re-election of the President (also known as the Committee to Re-elect the President), abbreviated CRP, but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was, officially, a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nix ...

(CRP), mockingly abbreviated as CREEP, an fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign

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 Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game series ''StarCraft'' revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector. The playable species of ...

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, a 1980s Swedish band that won the Rockbjörnen prize in 1990 * The Creeps, a 1960s South African band featuring David Kramer

Albums

* ''Creeps'', 2015 album from Indian Handcrafts

Songs

* "Creep" (Mobb Deep song) * "Creep" (Radiohead song) * "Creep" (Stone Temple Pilots song) * "Creep" (TLC song) * "Creep", a song by Dannii Minogue on the album '' Neon Nights'' * "C.R.E.E.P.", a song by The Fall * " Creepin'", a song by Eric Church * "The Creep" (song), by The Lonely Island * "The Creep", a 1950s instrumental by Ken Mackintosh * "The Creeps" (Camille Jones song), remixed by, among others, Fedde le Grand * " The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)", song by the Freaks * "Creeping" (song), a 2018 single by Lil Skies featuring Rich the Kid * "Creepin'" (Metro Boomin, the Weeknd and 21 Savage song), a 2022 song by Metro Boomin, the Weeknd and 21 Savage

Project management

Feature creep Feature creep is the excessive ongoing expansion or addition of new features in a product, especially in computer software, video games and consumer and business electronics. These extra features go beyond the basic function of the product and ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software *

Instruction creep Instruction creep or rule creep occurs when instructions or rules accumulate over time until they are unmanageable or inappropriate. It is a type of scope creep. The accumulation of bureaucratic requirements results in overly complex procedures ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions *

Mission creep Mission creep is the gradual or incremental expansion of an intervention, project or mission, beyond its original scope, focus or goals, a ratchet effect spawned by initial success. Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to how each s ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission *

Scope creep Scope creep (also called requirement creep, or kitchen sink syndrome) in project management refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project’s scope, at any point after the project begins. This can occur when the scope of a pr ...

, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

Creep (deformation) In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to move slowly or deform permanently under the influence of persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high lev ...

, 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 An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train. Adhesion traction is the friction between the drive wheels and the steel rail. The term "adhesion railway" is used only when it is necessary to distinguish adhesion railways from ...

. ** Idle creep, the tendency of a car with an

automatic transmission An automatic transmission (sometimes abbreviated to auto or AT) is a multi-speed transmission (mechanics), transmission used in internal combustion engine-based motor vehicles that does not require any input from the driver to change forward gea ...

to roll without the brakes engaged or the gear set to neutral. *

Aseismic creep In geology, aseismic creep or fault creep is measurable surface displacement along a fault in the absence of notable earthquakes. Aseismic creep may also occur as "after-slip" days to years after an earthquake. Notable examples of aseismic slip in ...

, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault. *

Downhill creep Downhill creep, also known as soil creep or commonly just creep, is a type of creep characterized by the slow, downward progression of rock and soil down a low grade slope; it can also refer to slow deformation of such materials as a result of ...

, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope. * Location creep, an erratic effect in

real-time locating systems Real-time locating systems (RTLS), also known as real-time tracking systems, are used to automatically identify and track the location of objects or people in real time, usually within a building or other contained area. Wireless RTLS tags are a ...

Superfluid Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without any loss of kinetic energy. When stirred, a superfluid forms vortices that continue to rotate indefinitely. Superfluidity occurs in two ...

creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container