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up poo creek

up poo creek is the alternative form of up shit creek.

Meaning of up shit creek

Prepositional phrase

  1. (vulgar) In trouble; in a difficult situation.

Questions about up poo creek

What is up poo creek the alternative form of?
Up poo creek is the alternative form of up shit creek.

Words near up poo creek in the dictionary

  1. up one's own ass
  2. up one's sleeve
  3. up one's sleeves
  4. up oneself
  5. up or out
  6. up poo creek
  7. up quark
  8. up quarks
  9. up round
  10. up rounds
  11. up shit creek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up poo creek (page history and authors); up shit creek (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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