Meaning of creek | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.
2. The ship of characters Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak from the South Park series.
   slang
3. A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary
4. A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
   British
5. One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.
6. A surname.
7. The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats
8. The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
   British
9. A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water
10. A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
    Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US
11. Any turn or winding
12. Any turn or winding.

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Examples

“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.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The episode’s humor and heart speak to viewers bemused at the concept of yaoi and devoted “Creek” shippers alike, but it isn’t the child characters learning something by the show’s conclusion. Instead, it’s a father who learns a lesson about being a better parent to his son.”

“This [“Tweek vs. Craig”] is a regular season 3 outing that aired in June 1999, and I picked it not merely because I'm a hardcore Creek shipper.”

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