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creepify en · VERB

Etymology

From creep + -ify or creepy + -ify.

Meanings

1. (informal, transitive) To make creepy; to make annoying, unpleasant, or mildly threatening.
   • The Halloween section of FabulousFoods has a ton of recipes for both food and beverages, and offers a number of tips to creepify-up anything you’re planning to prepare. 2004, Rich Gray, Click Or Treat: The Best of Halloween and Horror on the Internet, McFarland, →ISBN, page 25:
   • McCloy had the power to say yes, but said no / a no that creepifies his name in the time-track 2000, Ed Sanders, America: A History in Verse, Volume 2: 1940-1961, David R. Godine (publisher), page 95
   • Singer Layne Staley’s dark words further creepify Alice’s sound. 1993 July, Lorraine Ali, “Alice in Chains”, in SPIN, volume 9, number 4, Camouflage Associates, page 45:
2. (informal, transitive) To creep out, to give (someone) the creeps.
   • But the Gun Dude ends up creepifying me when he tells me to hurry because, ever since the gun ban, the assault weapons have been "selling like hot cakes." 2002, Harmon Leon, The Harmon Chronicles, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 126:
   • I know I’m at the right place when I see 5 guys pushing a broken down van into the Café Risque parking lot (there’s ample trucker parking, but the prospect of free trucker showers creepifies me). 2007, Harmon Leon, National Lampoon Road Trip USA: All the Places Your Dad Never Stopped At, National Lampoon, page 295

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