creek

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   the creek dried up every summer

2. 2
   noun

   A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.

   Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.

3. 3
   noun

   A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

   We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or pertaining to the Creek tribe.

   The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.

5. 5
   name

   The ship of characters Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak from the South Park series.

   For at least a decade, people on the internet have been drawing fan art of the love between this two characters (a ship known as "Creek"). A cursory search of DeviantArt shows Creek art dating back to 2005. And when Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided it was finally time to acknowledge Creek and their surprisingly robust online fandom, they went straight to the source, soliciting real drawings from users online.

6. 6
   noun

   The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.

7. 7
   noun

   Any turn or winding.

8. 8
   noun

   One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.

Etymology

From Middle English crike, probably from Old Norse kriki, from Proto-Germanic *krikjô, variant of krekô, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, to wind”); the modern form creek (already late Middle English creke) either reflects open-syllable lengthening of Middle English /i/ or reborrowing from Middle Dutch krēke., Compare typologically English bight, akin to bend, bow. See also Old Dutch creka, crika (“inlet, cove, creek”), Medieval Latin creca, crica, kríkr (“angle, corner, nook, bay”), Old Norse kraki (“pole with a hook, anchor”), and possibly Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”). Mode…