noun. A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river.

noun. A channel or stream running through a salt marsh.

noun. A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.

idiom. (up the creek (without a paddle)) In a difficult, unfortunate, or inextricable position.

To twist and wind; form a creek.

noun. An obsolete spelling of creak.

noun. A small inlet, bay, or cove; a recess in the shore of the sea or of a river, or of any considerable body of water.

noun. A small stream; a brook; a rivulet. See crick.

noun. A turn or winding.

noun. Hence A device; an artifice; a trick.

noun. A small seaboard town of insufficient importance to have a customs-station of its own.

noun. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

noun. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

noun. Any turn or winding.

noun. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

noun. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

noun. Any turn or winding.

noun. any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

noun. a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

"Over the divide at the head of this creek is a tributary of the Big Windy."