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^[1], section III:

     She did know where he had gone? Up-creek? Good! He would strike out after him at once […]

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia‎^[2], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 213:

     […] her staring upcreek from the kitchen window, her secret smiles, her sighs, this and more told the rest of the tale […]