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Synonyms for crawler

  • noun

Most common

fishing worm dew worm night crawler earthworm lackey toady spider creeper

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Fishing worm

fishing worm, dew worm, red worm US, earthworm, night crawler, wiggler, nightwalker, angleworm US, fishworm

2. Lackey

lackey, toady, sycophant, ass-kisser vulgar slang US CA

Other

creeper, spider, caterpillar track

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.

  2. n. 2

    A crawl swimmer.

Related words

Phrases
crawler lane crawler track crawler crane creepy crawler curb crawler kerb crawler rock crawler

Forms

Plural
crawlers → earthworms, wigglers, nightwalkers, angleworms…

Example sentences

  • earthworm I've happened to cry over the death of an earthworm.
  • lackey You treat me like a lackey and I don't like it.
  • toady Carmen only bakes the bosses' favourite cake to toady up to him.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
crawlerfalling
earthwormsteady
lackeyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
toady
6 letters
spider2, lackey2
7 letters
creeper, wiggler
8 letters
fishworm
9 letters
earthworm2, sycophant, angleworm
11 letters
nightwalker

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (spider2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
crawler