ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

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Related dictionary entries include wall crawler, sclerobiont, semibrachiator, climber, scrambler, parasite.

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