crick

crick
    n 1: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back
         (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: {crick}, {kink},
         {rick}, {wrick}]
    2: English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover
       the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) [syn: {Crick},
       {Francis Crick}, {Francis Henry Compton Crick}]
    v 1: twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your
         neck"
    

Crick \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See {Creak}.]
   The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.]
   --Johnson.
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Crick \Crick\, n. [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See
   {Creek}, {Crook}.]
   1. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part
      of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it
      difficult to move the part.
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            To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei
            necks drawn backward.                 --Holland.
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   2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight.
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51 Moby Thesaurus words for "crick":
      acute pain, bite, boring pain, branch, brook, charley horse, chirk,
      chirking, chirp, chirrup, cramp, cramps, creak, darting pain,
      fulgurant pain, gill, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, hitch,
      jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, nip, pang, paroxysm, pinch,
      prick, race, rivulet, run, runnel, seizure, sharp pain, shoot,
      shooting, shooting pain, spasm, stab, stabbing pain, stitch,
      stream, stridulate, stridulation, thrill, throes, tormen, tweak,
      twinge, twitch, wrench