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creep
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1. v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has
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overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of
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low-budget monster movies.
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2. Someone who makes conspicuously unwanted sexual advances at a hacker
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conference.
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3. Gradual increase in scope of a project without corresponding increase in
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budget or number of engineers. "On a fixed budget the project scope creeped
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into a crunch".
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