creep up

Meaning

1. Editorial67% of films

   to move slowly and quietly toward someone so they do not notice until you are close

   You creep up on me like that, you little vagrant. What do you want?

2. Editorial33% of films

   (of a feeling, effect, or change) to start affecting someone gradually without their noticing

In the movies · 14

• You feel it coming. It creeps up on you, close in your ear,Ford v Ferrari2019
• The murderer crept up behind him and killed him!Clue1985
• Maybe I can creep up.O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000
• laughs They ll creep up on you I d be carefulEnchanted2007
• We're creeping up fast.Unstoppable2010
• You creep up on me like that, you little vagrant. What do you want?Whatever Works2009
• well, those chances, they just keep creeping up.Let Him Go2020
• You can't keep creeping up on me like that, Charlie.The Purge2013

Learn it in full scenes

• Clue1985
  • Mrs. Peacock Breaks the Ice
  • Guests Arrive at the Mansion
  • Wadsworth Reveals the Blackmail
• Whatever Works2009
  • Boris Breaks the Fourth Wall
  • Boris Panics and Jumps Out the Window
  • Boris Takes Melodie In

From the same entry

• make your flesh creep
• creep in
• creep out
• creep up on
• give the creeps