English noun: crawler |
1. | crawler (person) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage |
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| Synonyms | ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
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| Broader (hypernym) | adulator, flatterer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, goody-goody, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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2. | crawler (person) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground |
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| Synonyms | creeper |
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| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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3. | crawler (animal) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers |
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| Synonyms | angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| Broader (hypernym) | oligochaete, oligochaete worm |
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| Member meronym | class Oligochaeta, Oligochaeta |
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