Creep

Creep, Creeps, The Creep or The Creeps may refer to:

History

• CREEP, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, associated with the Watergate scandal of U.S. president Nixon's administration.

Project management

• Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
• Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
• Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
• Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

• Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses.
• Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low grade slope.
• Aseismic creep, a slow steady movement along an earthquake fault.
• Creep, advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip, see rail adhesion
• Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to crawl up the walls of its container.
• Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems

Entertainment

Film

• 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 horror film
• Creep (2014 film), an American found-footage horror film

Video games

• Creep, a unit controlled by game artificial intelligence in multiplayer online battle arena
• "Creep" is a carpet of bio-matter Zerg colonies produce in StarCraft video game franchise

Music

• Creep (band), American electronic music band
• The Creeps (Swedish band), 1980s band that won the Rockbjörnen prize in 1990
• The Creeps (South African band), 1960s band featuring David Kramer
• "The Creep," a 1950s instrumental by Ken Mackintosh
• "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
• "The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)," song by the Freaks
• "The Creeps" (Camille Jones song), remixed by, among others, Fedde le Grand
• "The Creep" (song), by The Lonely Island
• "C.R.E.E.P.," a song by The Fall
• "Creeps" (Indian Handcrafts album), 2015 album from Indian Handcrafts

Publications

• Creeps (novel), 2013 young adult novel by Darren Hynes
• The Creeping, 2015 young adult novel by Alexandra Sirowy

See also

• KREEP, acronym for a lunar mineral
• Creepy (disambiguation)
• Creeper (disambiguation)
• Creepshow (disambiguation)
• "Creepin'", a song by Eric Church
• Deli Creeps, an avant-garde band from San Francisco (1990-2007}
• Von Kreepsula, a fictional comic book from Mona the Vampire as well as an antagonist of the same name