creek
1 Americannoun
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U.S. and Canada. a stream smaller than a river.
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a stream or channel in a coastal marsh.
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Chiefly Atlantic States and British. a recess or inlet in the shore of the sea.
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an estuary.
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British Dialect. a narrow, winding passage or hidden recess.
idioms
noun
plural
Creeks,plural
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a member of a confederacy of North American Indians that in historic times occupied the greater part of Alabama and Georgia.
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Also called Muskogee. a Muskogean language that is the language of the Creek Indians.
noun
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a narrow inlet or bay, esp of the sea
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a small stream or tributary
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slang in trouble; in a difficult position
noun
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a member of a confederacy of Native American peoples formerly living in Georgia and Alabama, now chiefly in Oklahoma
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any of the languages of these peoples, belonging to the Muskhogean family
Other Word Forms
- subcreek noun
Etymology
Origin of creek
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English creke, variant of crike, from Old Norse kriki “bend, crook”
Example Sentences
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Later, when asked what the family had done with the relics, Mother Fox told a neighbor that the bones had been “sunk in the creek.”
From Literature
Not far from the college, we crossed a bridge over a small creek.
From Literature
Army Green Berets lumbered through a northern Swedish pine forest, struggling not to fall on their brand new skis as they dragged sleds over hills and frozen creeks.
On Tuesday, she and two Ph.D. students took water samples on a placid bend of the river near a creek that had been swollen with sewage.
The creek was shallow and warm, but they flopped in, and it trickled over their hot bodies.
From Literature
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