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feature creep 

Feature creep or scope creep is what happens when a project (usually software) spirals out of control and starts to have features added to it that were not intended, were not in the original design, or were not paid for. Feature creep usually results in bad times for the builders of the project as well as the company they work for.

Feature creep is generally a result of poor management or a bad idea, in which nobody had the balls to say "no" to either the bad design in the first place, or to the guy who wanted to add the features (which can be as often one of the people building it as one of the people paying for it).

Feature creep has made its way into the public arena as mission creep, to describe a political or military adventure that has gone out of control in the same way, for the same reasons.
I would have been out partying this weekend, but thanks to feature creep, I was working all weekend instead.
feature creep by Severian July 8, 2004
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Pokémon Creep 

Usually male person over 30 who tries to reconnect with today's youth by starting random conversations about Pokémon GO. Often with a van parked behind them.
Jay (17): This creepy forty-something guy at the beach approached us and asked if he could show us his 290 CP Pidgeotto.
Cassandra (19): Yeah, malls and beaches have been full of Pokémon creeps lately. Kinda takes the fun out of catching them all...
Jay (17): I hear ya!
Pokémon Creep by Airsoul July 24, 2016

Cyber Creep 

A weird nieve person who creeps on predominantly the female population hoping they can find love on the internet via Facebook, Eharmony, Match.com etc.
Hey John guess what? What? I have a hot date tonight! Oh really? Yeah, I added her on facebook because I thought she looked really hot and we just started talking. Aww man come on! Someone's going to think your a cyber creep or something if you dont stop that stuff.
Cyber Creep by Red Scrotum's October 27, 2012

facebook creep 

verb
1. to spend a ridiculous amount of time (normally when procrastinating, bored, or both)on the website Facebook
2. to look up persons whom you are not related or affiliated with and/or have no intention of being friends with in real life because of some amount of potential weirdness, hotness, lameness or other limiting factor
"Susan spent 2 hours facebook creeping the super fly guy from her biology class, looking at his pictures, comments, wall, news feed, and that of everyone he is friends with."
facebook creep by Amandalie January 6, 2009

Internet Creep 

One who is incapable of chatting up girls in real life and therefore resorts to stalking them online.
So let's say this kid stumbles across a girl's youtube account where she posts occasional vlogs - he finds her physically attractive. He will then google (and perhaps even yahoo) her username and see if she's signed up to any other sites with that same name. Let's say he finds something (Friendster, myspace), he will then try find any information about her he can. This could include where she lives, her age, interests, whatever. If there are any pictures of her on one of these sites he might even save them to his computer (provided the given site allows it). Then when he's gathered what he believes to be enough information, he'll contact her somehow and surprise her by pretending that his interests or whatever are congruent with hers. Say she's from Philadelphia - he'll put on some bullshit about how his Grandparents grew up there. And so on and so forth - that is an internet creep.
Internet Creep by iamwhatiamcalled October 21, 2007

Shalom the creep 

A Shalom the creep as the definition implies is in fact a homosexual who lives for the dick which creeps out ]girls] can be shorten to STC or suck the cock which it thinks about. And no matter what people say when it moans it is in fact not sexy but it does help when it listens to recordings of itself moaning and jacks off to it of course using they’re .5 mm tweezer to help out
Oh no it’s a Shalom the creep he’s coming to rape us