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creek Creek
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
creek/kriːk/
▶noun chiefly Brit. a narrow, sheltered waterway such as an inlet in a shoreline or channel in a marsh.
■ N. Amer. & Austral./NZ a stream or minor tributary of a river.
– phrases
up the creek informal
up the creek informal
- 1 in severe difficulty or trouble.
- 2 Brit. stupid or misguided.
– origin ME: from OFr. crique or from ON kriki ‘nook’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Creek /kriːk/
▶noun (pl. same)
- 1 a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the south-eastern US in the 16th to 19th centuries.
- 2 the Muskogean language spoken by the Creek.
– origin from creek, because they lived beside the waterways of the flatlands of Georgia and Alabama.
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Forum discussions with the word(s) "creek" in the title:
Battle Creek
brook * creek
Brook, creek, and stream
brushy draw of the creek
Chocolate creek/popsicle stick
creek in Canada
Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Run the Creeks up the creek
we're up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick
brook * creek
Brook, creek, and stream
brushy draw of the creek
Chocolate creek/popsicle stick
creek in Canada
Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Run the Creeks up the creek
we're up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick
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