CRAWLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crawler mean? 

• CRAWLER (noun)
  The noun CRAWLER has 3 senses:

1. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

2. a person who crawls or creeps along the ground

3. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

  Familiarity information: CRAWLER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAWLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ass-kisser; crawler; lackey; sycophant; toady

Hypernyms ("crawler" is a kind of...):

adulator; flatterer (a person who uses flattery)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crawler"):

apple polisher; bootlicker; fawner; groveler; groveller; truckler (someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect)

goody-goody (a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior)

Derivation:

crawl (show submission or fear)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who crawls or creeps along the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

crawler; creeper

Hypernyms ("crawler" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

crawl (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

angleworm; crawler; dew worm; earthworm; fishing worm; fishworm; nightcrawler; nightwalker; red worm; wiggler

Hypernyms ("crawler" is a kind of...):

oligochaete; oligochaete worm (hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body)

Holonyms ("crawler" is a member of...):

class Oligochaeta; Oligochaeta (earthworms)

Derivation:

crawl (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground)