crick

Plural: cricks

Noun

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
• English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
• A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
• A small jackscrew.
• Alternative form of creek.
• The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

Verb

Verb Forms: cricked, cricking, cricks

• To cause a painful spasm or stiffness, especially in the neck or back.
• twist (a body part) into a strained position
  • "crick your neck"
• To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
• To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
• To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

Examples

• My neck began to CRICK after hours of intense Scrabble concentration.

Synonyms

Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick, kink, rick, wrick

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