Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crawl over each other

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: crawl over each other
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To compete with others eagerly or fiercely in pursuit of the same goal(s).

Example Sentences

"We crawl over each other in our race for power, wealth, and fame."
"By the time "The Contest" was repeated on April 29, 1993, the first night of that year's May sweeps, Seinfeld was a Top Ten show on Thursday nights, and advertisers were crawling over each other to sign up."
"[…] game shows like Survivor, where young, attractive (mainly white, but definitely affluent or unthreateningly petit-bourgeois) people are invited to pretend that they are alone in the 'wilderness' and must crawl over each other for access to food, shelter and sex."

Inflected Forms

crawling over each other (participle, present) crawled over each other (participle, past) crawled over each other (past)

Questions

What does crawl over each other mean?: To compete with others eagerly or fiercely in pursuit of the same goal(s).

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