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1. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
   "the creek dried up every summer";
   - brook

1. Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

Sounds like: creak

Derived forms: creeks, Creeks

Type of: American Indian, Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian [archaic], stream, watercourse

Encyclopedia: Creek, Texas