crawler

noun

crawl·er ˈkrȯ-lər

plural crawlers

Synonyms of crawler next

: someone or something that crawls: such as

: a small organism (such as an insect or worm) that typically moves along close to or on the ground

He won $600 last year for eating a worm. … He devoured the crawler in Yakult, Japan. …—

Janine Zuniga Irvine

That's when he [Cam Lyons] remembered hearing about dogs that are trained to sniff for bedbugs. If a dog could hunt and find those tiny crawlers, he thought, why not weevils?—

Ron Charles

see also creepy crawler, night crawler

informal + often humorous : a young child

especially : a young child that crawls but does not yet walk

Attention moms, dads, grandparents, uncles and aunts. Sign up your little crawler and toddler for the annual Corn Fest Diaper Derby-Toddler Trot … —

The Midweek (Sycamore, Illinois)

Knee pads for babies! … the embroidered patella buffers … are designed to keep your little crawler boo-boo free. —

Jill Radsken

: someone who participates in crawls (see crawl entry 2 sense 1d)

Each pub crawler will receive a free hot toddy in a … mug.—

Susan Sprague Yeske

Just a few quick steps away on Fourth Avenue, the Dream Hotel and the Bobby Hotel have added art exhibits for art crawlers to enjoy.—

Janet Kurtz

: a vehicle (such as a crane) that travels on endless (see endless sense 3) chain belts

… a crawler crane and other equipment were used while the tower crane was out of commission.—

Chase Rogers

For more than 40 years, the twin crawler-transporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have traveled the gravel track between the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39.—

Cheryl L. Mansfield

: software that automatically visits and indexes websites for future search engine or database queries

Publishers usually have a small amount of traffic coming from search engine crawlers …—

Augustine Fou

Examples of crawler in a Sentence

he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late

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For years, however, the face of the gigantic crawler eluded scientists—Arthropleura fossils discovered since the 1800s were often only remnants of headless exoskeletons left behind during molting. —

Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024 Previously, sites could distinguish between approving access to helpful bots that drive traffic, like search engine crawlers, and denying access to bad bots that try to take down sites or scrape sensitive or competitive data. —

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024 Spooky fun party with crafts, story time, pumpkin science and creepy crawlers. —

Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024 The crawler is the culmination of years of invention, testing and tweaking. —

Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for crawler