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feature creep

what Mark CIO cries for in his sleep. Sees it as a good thing not as a bad.

Letting the dozy clients add more work without extending the deadline.
Mark won't do anything about all this feature creep, it's like getting 1,000 cold henrys!
by Marks [MoMo] July 9, 2004
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Cum Creep

A woman who will do absolutely anything for a shag
'ello darlin fancy a bit of 'ows yer farver???
by Freddy the fingerer July 17, 2003
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mission creep

the event, observation / perception of, reaction to -- mass hypnosis.

derived from a specific historical event (video documentation), when the commander in chief addressed an active-duty armed forces division in a militarized zone. with careful diction, the president punctuated his statement : "and you will ... complete your --- "

the pronunciation of "mission," elicited from the division--in all but perfect unison-- a slow crescendo, a roar, something like "rah" at its peak.

the noteworthy aspect is both aural and visual. half a beat after the word was spoken (an apparent, if experimental, verbal prompt) the division members slowly raised their heads and emitted--some tentative, at first, some strong, then as a chorus--the crescendo-roar. it gave the distinct impression of hypnosis on a mass scale.

the phrase then, not only denotes the incident described, but also the feelings elicited by it. more generally, it denotes the event (real or hypothetical), of grand-scale, schematic influence of human behavior/performance. (at least, and specifically in this case, to the degree of verbal prompting.) it might also be used as an epithet.
the primary example, the one from which the phrase derives, is given above, as part of the definitional terminology.

more generally: any time a large group, say ten thousand or more, responds to a verbal prompt in a manner that suggests a subliminally embedded cue, called out by the speaker. the cue word is not important, may be obvious, even anticipated; rather, it is the nature of the response. timed, rhythmic, spontaneous, choral, lacking in self awareness.

note :
those from whom the response is elicited--depending on the individual, situational variables and controls--may identify it as an instance of manipulation, extrapolate and assess the implications.

if conditions allow for a phenomenological analysis of a perceived violation (that takes precedence over a given emotional response such as outrage), a reverse "challenge" (hypnotic motivation institute, glossary of terms: hypnosis.edu/glossary/c) might emerge.

consider for instance, the prose inked by radiohead on their 2001 release, AMNESIAC (copyright EMI LTD.) : "come on. come on if you think. you can take us ... all on. holy roman empire. you and whose army? you and your cronies..."
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one might dismiss such an event as accidental.(a paltry dismissal.)or, with a casual reference to the ubiquity of nuero-linguistic programming.
but key here is the scale. the context. the super-spooky.

ergo, mission creep.
by frosh laureate January 17, 2011
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Closet Creep

Closet creep occurs when understood boundaries are ignored in shared closet space.
There are understood to be boundaries in a shared closet. Two people, each have half the space available to them to use as they wish.

One goes to their space in the closet to find other's clothes in their space; you would sense closet creep
by urban bullet August 23, 2011
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that's creep

wierd, bad, sad, stupid, messed up*
"You heard the dops busted Joe with a temple"

"Damn man that's creep"
by KJ* March 30, 2010
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captain creep

another phrase to call a "peeping tom", or someone who is just generally a creep or creepy
so we were at the mall chillen n we saw captain creep hittin on all the young girls
by christophorus September 8, 2010
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Lebo Creep

To sneak up behind someone and silently watch their computer monitor.
Damn... I was talking to an ugly chick on Facebook, Matt totally lebo creeped me and told everyone. My social life is ruined...
by itsmalkir June 14, 2011
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