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Crick   /krɪk/   Listen
Crick

noun
1.
A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British).  Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick.
2.
English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004).  Synonyms: Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick.
verb
1.
Twist (a body part) into a strained position.



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"Crick" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ben again, late that fall. When the circus closed he travelled back a thousand miles in a check suit and a red necktie, just to get another good licking. Ben must of been quite aggravated by that time, for he wound up by throwing Ed into the crick in ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson
... They was a crick about a hundred yards from our house, in the woods, and I went over there and laid down and watched it run by. I laid awful still, thinking I wisht I was away from that town. Purty soon a squirrel comes down and ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis
... chirped, and it sounded just like a telegraph instrument. "Crick-a-crick-a-crick. There," he chirped, "I've told them to make a search and we'll ...
— Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover • George Mitchel
... implying the possibility of their being connected with any Evil thing. In short, they were very often in his ears, and very often in his thoughts, but always in his good opinion; and he very often got such a crick in his neck by staring with his mouth wide open, at the steeple where they hung, that he was fain to take an extra trot or two, afterward, ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... your head?" cried the mother, seizing the said member between her two hands and giving it an energetic twist that dislocated a bone or snapped a tendon, one might have surmised from the sharp crick-crack which accompanied the movement. "What in the name of decency makes you pack your mouth in that manner? Are ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various


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