Definition of creek
1 chiefly British : a small inlet or bay narrower and extending farther inland than a cove
2 : a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river
3 archaic : a narrow or winding passage
up the creek
: in a difficult or perplexing situation
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Examples of creek in a Sentence
The children waded in the creek.
The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
Recent Examples of creek from the Web
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That meant the country was piling on debt even as government revenue exploded—a senseless, pro-cyclical policy that left Venezuela up a creek without a paddle when commodity prices tanked.
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Weekly summer camps for children ages 3 to 12 start the same day, offering programs on bird watching, creek wildlife, camping skills, art and gardening.
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The city reports that the contractor this week prepared to accept delivery of 240-feet of 8-foot-by-10-foot box culvert that will placed in the Rattlesnake creek.
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The tract is surrounded by Important Bird Areas designated by the National Audubon Society and contains the headwaters of a creek and tributary streams.
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Dallas police are praising a group of people who helped a critically injured officer by scrambling down into a creek bed and stabilizing the officer’s patrol car after it was forced off the road by another vehicle.
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The patrol car landed on a 12-inch metal gas pipe and then fell 24 feet to the bottom of the creek on its roof, Martinez said.
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Rescue teams performed a technical rescue to get the man safely down the mountain and back across the creek.
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Dallas police are praising a group of people who helped a critically injured officer by scrambling down into a creek bed to stabilize the officer’s patrol car after it was forced off the road by another vehicle.
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Origin and Etymology of creek
Middle English crike, creke, from Old Norse -kriki bend
First Known Use: 13th century
Other Geology Terms
anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale
Creek
playDefinition of Creek
1 : an American Indian confederacy of peoples chiefly of Muskogean stock of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
2 : a member of any of the Creek peoples
3 : the Muskogean language of the Creek Indians
Recent Examples of creek from the Web
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That meant the country was piling on debt even as government revenue exploded—a senseless, pro-cyclical policy that left Venezuela up a creek without a paddle when commodity prices tanked.
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Weekly summer camps for children ages 3 to 12 start the same day, offering programs on bird watching, creek wildlife, camping skills, art and gardening.
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The city reports that the contractor this week prepared to accept delivery of 240-feet of 8-foot-by-10-foot box culvert that will placed in the Rattlesnake creek.
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The tract is surrounded by Important Bird Areas designated by the National Audubon Society and contains the headwaters of a creek and tributary streams.
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Dallas police are praising a group of people who helped a critically injured officer by scrambling down into a creek bed and stabilizing the officer’s patrol car after it was forced off the road by another vehicle.
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The patrol car landed on a 12-inch metal gas pipe and then fell 24 feet to the bottom of the creek on its roof, Martinez said.
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Rescue teams performed a technical rescue to get the man safely down the mountain and back across the creek.
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Dallas police are praising a group of people who helped a critically injured officer by scrambling down into a creek bed to stabilize the officer’s patrol car after it was forced off the road by another vehicle.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'Creek'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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First Known Use of creek
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creek
playDefinition of creek for Students
: a stream of water usually larger than a brook and smaller than a river
Creek
playDefinition of Creek for Students
1 : a confederacy of American Indian people once occupying most of Alabama and Georgia
2 : the language of the Creek people
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