upcreek
English
Alternative forms
- up-creek
Etymology
up- + creek
Adverb
upcreek (not comparable)
- Towards the source of a creek.
- 1901, Jack London, "The Scorn of Women" in The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke, III,
- She did know where he had gone? Up-creek? Good! He would strike out after him at once […]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XIII, p. 213,
- […] her staring upcreek from the kitchen window, her secret smiles, her sighs, this and more told the rest of the tale […]
- 1901, Jack London, "The Scorn of Women" in The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke, III,