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wall-crawler

wall-crawler noun: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.

Noun

wall-crawler (plural wall-crawlers)

  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.1983 September-October, Bob Sanders, “Our Kind Of Superhero”, in Mother Jones, volume 8, number 8, page 9
    • 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?1999 January 7, Juliet E. McKenna, The Thief's Gamble (Tales of Einarinn), Orbit, →ISBN, →OL

Forms of wall-crawler

pluralwall-crawlers
alternative formwall crawler
alternative formwallcrawler

Origin of wall-crawler

From wall + crawler.

Questions about wall-crawler

What does wall-crawler mean?
Wall-crawler means something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.
What part of speech is wall-crawler?
Wall-crawler is a noun.
What is the plural of wall-crawler?
The plural of wall-crawler is wall-crawlers.

Words near wall-crawler in the dictionary

  1. wall walk
  2. wall walks
  3. wall wart
  4. wall warts
  5. wall-clock time
  6. wall-crawler
  7. wall-crawlers
  8. wall-eye
  9. wall-eyed
  10. wall-eyes
  11. wall-flower

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