Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crawler

3 senses of crawler

Sense 1
sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser -- (a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage)
       => flatterer, adulator -- (a person who uses flattery)

Sense 2
crawler, creeper -- (a person who crawls or creeps along the ground)
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")

Sense 3
earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm -- (terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers)
       => oligochaete, oligochaete worm -- (hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body)

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