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upcreek en · ADV

Etymology

From up- + creek.

Meanings

1. Towards the source of a creek.
   • […] 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:
   • 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:

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