| Front | crawl |
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| Back | crawl verb, noun BrE /krɔːl/ NAmE /krɔːl/ verb verb forms word origin example bank 1 [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move forward on your hands and knees, with your body close to the ground Our baby is just starting to crawl. A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage. She crawled under the fence. 2 [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) when an insect crawls, it moves forward on its legs There's a spider crawling up your leg. 3 [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move forward very slowly The traffic was crawling along. The weeks crawled by. 4 [intransitive] ~ (to sb) (informal, disapproving) to be too friendly or helpful to sb in authority, in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them She's always crawling to the boss. see make your skin crawl at skin n., come/crawl out of the woodwork at woodwork be ˈcrawling with sth (informal) to be full of or completely covered with people, insects or animals, in a way that is unpleasant The place was crawling with journalists. Her hair was crawling with lice. noun word origin example bank 1 [singular] a very slow speed The traffic slowed to a crawl. see also pub crawl 2 (often the crawl) [singular, uncountable] a fast swimming stroke that you do lying on your front moving one arm over your head, and then the other, while kicking with your feet a swimmer doing the crawl He struck out across the pool in a powerful crawl. |
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