Definitions for Creek

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Creek creek

Spelling: [kreek, krik]

IPA: /krik, krɪk/

Creek is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Creek (ceekr).

Definitions for Creek

noun

1. U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
2. a stream or channel in a coastal marsh.
3. Chiefly Atlantic States and British. a recess or inlet in the shore of the sea.
4. an estuary.
5. British Dialect. a narrow, winding passage or hidden recess.
6. a member of a confederacy of North American Indians that in historic times occupied the greater part of Alabama and Georgia.
7. Also called Muskogee. a Muskogean language that is the language of the Creek Indians.

Idioms

1. up the creek, Slang. in a predicament; in a difficult or seemingly hopeless situation.

Origin of Creek

1200-50; Middle English creke, variant of crike Old Norse kriki bend, crook

Examples for Creek

It came up from and disappeared into the creek, so I was sure it must have been a Gahonga.

The engine, baggage car, coach, and chair car fell into the creek, claiming 96 lives and leaving only two dozen alive.

Had the creek been their only creditor the Carters would have been fortunate.

We were toasting them at a fire we had made close to a creek, to stay our appetites.

She meant Plaza Towers Elementary School on the other side of the creek, which had been smashed to rubble and twisted beams.

As Gawain rides along the bank of a creek, he hears this sickening sound ringing from above.

I have said that the Carters owed their little farm to the creek.

In February 2011, during a winter storm, a tree fell into a creek in Franklin Township, New Jersey, and caused flooding.

It was with some trepidation that Pierre set out for the creek.

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