"upcreek" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "up- + creek",
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  "etymology_text": "up- + creek",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1901, Jack London, “The Scorn of Women”, in The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke, section III",
          "text": "She did know where he had gone? Up-creek? Good! He would strike out after him at once […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 213",
          "text": "[…] her staring upcreek from the kitchen window, her secret smiles, her sighs, this and more told the rest of the tale […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "Towards the source of a creek."
      ],
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          "creek",
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          "word": "up-creek"
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  "word": "upcreek"
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        "2": "up",
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      },
      "expansion": "up- + creek",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "up- + creek",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1901, Jack London, “The Scorn of Women”, in The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke, section III",
          "text": "She did know where he had gone? Up-creek? Good! He would strike out after him at once […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 213",
          "text": "[…] her staring upcreek from the kitchen window, her secret smiles, her sighs, this and more told the rest of the tale […]",
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        "Towards the source of a creek."
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          "creek"
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      "word": "up-creek"
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