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wall-crawler

noun

Etymology

From wall + crawler.

  1. derived from *krabblōną✻
  2. derived from krafla
  3. derived from crawlen
  4. suffixed as crawler — “crawl + er”
  5. compounded as wall-crawler — “wall + crawler”

Definitions

  1. something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces

    • As Mother Jones goes to press, the masked, web-slinging wall-crawler is busy foiling a computer technician's evil designs to brainwash people through subliminal advertising in video games.
    • You're not just buying and selling with a wizard and a scholar in tow. What's so important that you have to hire a wall-crawler?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wall-crawler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA