creepazoid
English
Etymology
From creep + -a- + -(z)oid, possibly as a variant of creepoid.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
creepazoid (comparative more creepazoid, superlative most creepazoid)
- (slang) Creepy.
- 1990, Gloria Nagy, A House in the Hamptons, Delacorte Press, published 1990, page 121:
- Well, it's this great big old spooky house just off the Highway before East Hampton and a real creepazoid kinda handyman type lets me in and no lights on, like a Boris Karloff movie or somethin'.
- 2008, Leslie Kelly, Heated Rush, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 41:
- She wanted him physically, as she hadn't wanted anyone in a long time. Including her creepazoid ex.
- 2011, Christy Reece, Sweet Reward, Ballantine Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 271:
- Not only because she was buying clothes to entice a creepazoid criminal to sleep with her, but because she was still so furious with Jared.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:creepazoid.
Noun
creepazoid (plural creepazoids)
- (slang) A creepy person or creature.
- Synonyms: creep, creeper, creepoid
- Coordinate terms: freakazoid, weirdo
- 2005, William Bernhardt, Dark Eye, Ballantine Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 230:
- […] According to this book, the public image of Poe as this ghoulish creepazoid is inaccurate. His work was creepy, but he wasn't."
- 2010, Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June[1], Razorbill, →ISBN:
- “What sort of stalker creepazoid does that?”
- 2012, Anton Strout, Alchemystic[2], Ace, →ISBN:
- "Like hell, I don't," he said. "I don't want to see my roommate get killed. You know how hard it was to find someone who wasn't a Craigslist creepazoid in the first place? […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:creepazoid.