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单词 upcreek
释义

upcreek

English

Alternative forms

  • up-creek

Etymology

up- + creek

Adverb

upcreek (not comparable)

  1. 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 []
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