FLY-UP-THE-CREEK

Meaning of FLY-UP-THE-CREEK in English

| ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun

1. : green heron

2. chiefly South & Midland : a flighty person

3. usually capitalized F&C : floridian — used as a nickname

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FLY — I In general, almost any small flying insect. In entomology, the term refers specifically to the approximately 85,000 species of …
Английский словарь Британика
CREEK — or Muscogee A loose and shifting confederation of groups that once occupied much of the Georgia and Alabama flatlands, the …
Английский словарь Британика
UP — I. (|)əp adverb Etymology: partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English ūp; partly from Middle English uppe on …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
CREEK — I. ˈkrēk, ˈkrik — ˈkrik is less frequent in the South than in the rest of the US and less …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CREEK — /kreek/ , n. , pl. Creeks , ( esp. collectively ) Creek . 1. a member of a confederacy of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CREEK — /kreek, krik/ , n. 1. U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river. 2. a stream or channel …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
UP — I. ˈəp adverb Etymology: partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English ūp; partly from Middle English uppe on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FLY — I. ˈflī verb ( flew ˈflü ; flown ˈflōn ; fly·ing ) Etymology: Middle English flien, from Old English flēogan; …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CREEK — noun Date: 1725 1. : an American Indian confederacy of peoples chiefly of Muskogean stock of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CREEK — noun Etymology: Middle English crike, creke, from Old Norse -kriki bend Date: 13th century 1. chiefly British : a small …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UP — prep upon. 2. up ·adv aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up …
Webster English vocab
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Webster English vocab
CREEK — noun any turn or winding. 2. creek ·noun a stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a …
Webster English vocab
CREEK — [ kri:k ] ■ noun ( plural same) 1》 a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the …
Concise Oxford English vocab
FLY — [fly] vb flew ; flown ; fly.ing [ME flien, fr. OE fleogan; akin to OHG fliogan to fly and prob. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CREEK — [creek] n [ME crike, creke, fr. ON -kriki bend] (13c) 1 chiefly Brit: a small inlet or bay narrower and …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CREEK — Muskogean-speaking North American Indian tribe that originally occupied a huge expanse of the flatlands of Georgia and Alabama. Their economy …
Britannica English vocabulary
CREEK — Creek BrE AmE kriːk (= creak) ▷ Creeks kriːks
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CREEK — creek BrE AmE kriːk krɪk — Preference poll, American English: kriːk 98%, krɪk 2%. ▷ creeks kriːks krɪks
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
UP — / ʌp; NAmE / adverb , preposition , adjective , verb , noun ■ adverb HELP NOTE : For the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FLY — / flaɪ; NAmE / verb , noun , adjective ■ verb ( flies , fly·ing , flew / fluː; NAmE …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CREEK — / kriːk; NAmE / noun 1. ( BrE ) a narrow area of water where the sea flows into the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CREEK — / kriːk/ noun ( pl. Creek or Creeks ) a member of a Native American people, many of whom now …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UP — I. up 1 S1 W1 /ʌp/ BrE AmE adverb , preposition , adjective 1 . TO A HIGHER POSITION towards …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FLY — I. fly 1 S2 W2 /flaɪ/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense flew /fluː/, past participle flown /fləʊn $ floʊn/) …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CREEK — Creek BrE AmE noun 1 . the Creek [P] a Native American tribe from Georgia and Alabama in the US …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UP — adv., prep., adj., n., & v. --adv. 1 at, in, or towards a higher place or position (jumped up in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FLY — n. (pl. flies) 1 any insect of the order Diptera with two usu. transparent wings. 2 any other winged insect, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FLY — v. & n. --v. (flies; past flew; past part. flown) 1 intr. move through the air under control, esp. with …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CREEK — n. 1 Brit. a a small bay or harbour on a sea-coast. b a narrow inlet on a sea-coast or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
UP — adv., prep., adj., n., & v. adv. 1 at, in, or towards a higher place or position (jumped up in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FLY — n. (pl. flies) 1 any insect of the order Diptera with two usu. transparent wings. 2 any other winged insect, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FLY — v. & n. v. (flies; past flew; past part. flown) 1 intr. move through the air under control, esp. with …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CREEK — n. 1 Brit. a a small bay or harbour on a sea-coast. b a narrow inlet on a sea-coast or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FLY — 1. v. & n. --v. (flies; past flew; past part. flown) 1. intr. move through the air under control, esp. …
Oxford English vocab
CREEK — n.1 Brit. a a small bay or harbour on a sea-coast. b a narrow inlet on a sea-coast or in …
Oxford English vocab
UP — I. PREPOSITION, ADVERB, AND ADJECTIVE USES The preposition is pronounced /ʌp/. The adverb and adjective are pronounced /ʌp/. Frequency: The …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FLY — ( flies, flying, flew, flown) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CREEK — ( creeks) 1. A creek is a narrow place where the sea comes a long way into the land. ( …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CREEK — (~s) 1. A ~ is a narrow place where the sea comes a long way into the land. (BRIT) N-COUNT: …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FLY — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a ball flies/sails ▪ The ball flew over the goalkeeper’s head and into the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CREEK — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bed ▪ We humans used the bridge, but of course, Sally had to negotiate …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CREEK — [noun] [C] - (UK) a usually short narrow length of water flowing into a river, lake, sea, etc., or (US …
Cambridge English vocab
CREEK — n. or Muscogee Muskogean -speaking North American Indian people living mainly in Oklahoma, U.S., but also in Georgia and Alabama. …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
UP — Synonyms and related words : above, abovestairs, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, add to, addition, advance, against, aggrandize, aggrandizement, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CREEK — See: UP THE CREEK or UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE.
Slang English vocab
CREEK — noun ( AmE ) small stream ADJECTIVE ▪ tidal ▪ little , small VERB + CREEK ▪ cross CREEK + …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
UP — INDEX: 1. moving up to a higher place 2. looking, facing, or pointing upwards 3. to move upwards through the …
Longman Activator English vocab
CREEK — n. 1 Brit inlet, bay, cove, harbour Overnight we moored in a little creek, sheltered from the sea 2 US …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
CREEK — See: UP THE CREEK or UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE.
Словарь английских идиом
UP — 1. нареч. 1) вверх по, по направлению к 2) вдоль по; вглубь 3) против (течения, ветра и т. п.) 4) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
UP — 1. ʌp n 1. поезд, автобус и т. п. , идущий в большой город, в столицу или на север 2. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
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Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CREEK — creek.ogg kri:k n 1. небольшой залив или бухта; устье реки 2. преим. амер. рукав реки; приток; ручей, небольшая река up …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FLY — 1) полёт || летать; выполнять полёт; пилотировать 2) трелевать (транспортировать) ( брёвна ) канатной установкой 3) маховик, маховое колесо 4) …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
FLY — 1) полёт || летать; выполнять полёт; пилотировать 2) трелевать (транспортировать) (брёвна) канатной установкой 3) маховик, маховое колесо 4) картушка компаса 5) балансир, уравнительный маятник 6) …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
FLY — летать, пролетать; спешить; развевать(ся); улетать, исчезать (тж.fig); улепетывать; спасаться бегством муха; agric. coll. вредитель; полет; расстояние полета маятник; балансир; откидное …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
UP — 1. ʌp n 1. поезд, автобус и т. п. , идущий в большой город, в столицу или на север 2. …
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