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creek  audio  (krk, krk) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river.Also called regionally branch, brook1, kill2, run.
  2. A channel or stream running through a salt marsh: tidal creeks teeming with shore wildlife.
  3. Chiefly British A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.

IDIOM:
up the creek (without a paddle) Informal
In a difficult, unfortunate, or inextricable position.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English creke, probably from Old Norse kriki, bend


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