"creek" in the noun sense
1. brook, creek
a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river
"the creek dried up every summer"
2. Creek
any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
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