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upcreek

upcreek adverb: towards the source of a creek.

Adverb

upcreek (comparative further upcreek or farther upcreek, superlative furthest upcreek or farthest upcreek)

  1. Towards the source of a creek.
    • She did know where he had gone? Up-creek? Good! He would strike out after him at once […]1901, Jack London, “The Scorn of Women”, in The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke, section III
    • […] her staring upcreek from the kitchen window, her secret smiles, her sighs, this and more told the rest of the tale […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 213

Forms of upcreek

comparativefurther upcreek
comparativefarther upcreek
superlativefurthest upcreek
superlativefarthest upcreek
alternative formup-creek

Origin of upcreek

From up- + creek.

Questions about upcreek

What does upcreek mean?
Upcreek means towards the source of a creek.
What part of speech is upcreek?
Upcreek is an adverb.

Words near upcreek in the dictionary

  1. upcraned
  2. upcrawl
  3. upcrawled
  4. upcrawling
  5. upcrawls
  6. upcreek
  7. upcreep
  8. upcreeping
  9. upcreeps
  10. upcrept
  11. upcried

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