Wallcrawler
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wallcrawler is a noun meaning something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.
Meaning
something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.
Example Sentences
This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance.
Sandman looked up and saw the masked face of Spider-Man staring down at him. The wallcrawler was leaning against the rear doors of the armored car, apparently having dropped through the hole that Sandman had created.
When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became "the Fearless Tarantula" in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the "Legion of Superheroes" serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed wallcrawler.
Word Forms
- wallcrawlers
- wall-crawler
- wall crawler
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wall crawler, sclerobiont, semibrachiator, climber, scrambler, parasite.
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