[creek] n [ME crike, creke, fr. ON -kriki bend] (13c) 1 chiefly Brit: a small inlet or bay narrower and extending farther inland than a cove
2: a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river 3 archaic: a narrow or winding passage -- up the creek : in a difficult or perplexing situation Creek n (1725) 1: an American Indian confederacy of peoples chiefly of Muskogean stock of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
2: a member of any of the Creek peoples
3: the Muskogean language of the Creek Indians