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  • creek
    /krik/ [US dial. South idem; cf. Brit. /kriyk/ narrow inlet vs. US, colonial /krik/ tributary river, from misnaming of rivermouths by first
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  • credit: give credit to
    [OED credit to believe] v. phr. to take someone's side in an argument: [When their husbands fought] the wives would intervene
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  • crease
    n. [Car.; Brit. dial. East idem EDD I a crack (in a wall): 1966 Close up every crease and corner in the
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  • crazy hill
    n. a psychiatric hospital formerly located on a ridge overlooking Nassau: 1936 Dey'll probably sen y' up t' de crazy hill
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  • crazy
    [Vir. idem (Highfield); cf. Krio kres insanity KED] n. 1. insanity or mental retardation: Some have crazy (Eleu.). (Black) 2. [BDNE I idem]
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  • craziness
    [OED, the state of being crazy] n. un­inhibited or foolish activity: Everything like talking jokes and doing craziness (Long). (Black)
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  • crawler
    [craw/ + -er agent suffix cf. flipper] n. the leg of a lobster or turtle: 1918 B'o' Lobster Caught begot so
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  • crawl, craw, kraal
    [Car.; from colonial Dutch kraal from Port. curral pen W3, influenced by crawl] n. 1. a pen built in shallow water
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  • crawfisherman
    [CRAWFISH + fisherman] n. a person who catches CRAWFISH: 1977 (Albury 145). (Black)
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  • crawfish
    [W3, resembling the lobster but usually much smaller in size; cf. SA crayfish spiny rock lobster] n. the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus,
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