noun
- feelings of fear, uneasiness, or revulsion
Usage: informal; usually used with ‘the’
Examples
- That horror movie gave me the creepies.
- The old abandoned house gives everyone the creepies.
- I got the creepies walking through the dark forest alone.
- The strange noise in the attic gave her the creepies.
- Just thinking about spiders gives him the creepies.
- The eerie silence of the empty school hallway gave us all the creepies.