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wall-crawler en · NOUN

Etymology

From wall + crawler.

Meanings

1. something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
   • 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:
   • Her fingers slipped, and she felt herself starting to fall. At that same moment the wall-crawler sprang down at her, gripping the carved inscriptions in the black glossy surface with its left hand while its right swung down to clamp around her throat. 2010 December 28, Joe Schreiber, Red Harvest (Star Wars), New York: LucasBooks, →ISBN, chapter 42:
   • 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:

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