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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



... red channel of the creek that swept past their house to meet the Tantramar, a half mile further on, was marked on the old maps, dating from the days of Acadian occupation, by the name of the Petit Canard. But to the boys, as to all the villagers of quiet Frosty Hollow, it was known as "the Crick." ...
— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts
... sheets are made of such rich, thick linen, and are so smooth and polished that you slip down off your pillows with a crick in your neck, and the sheets slide off you, just as if they were made of heavy silver, like lids of dishes. Perhaps the monograms and crests drag them down. It's awful, but it's grand. And I should think there are at least twenty footmen ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... ere the newly married couple were able to set out on their journey to the French capital, and, even then, they had to travel along roads studded with quagmires into which their carriage frequently sank up to the axle. Sometimes fifteen or sixteen men and a crick were necessary to extricate them. Though on their honeymoon, they found the repetition of these incidents monotonous, and were so tired when they reached Dresden that they stayed there to recover themselves. From this ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... to sea, as fell out just 'pon the right day, mother took me up theer. That was my awn mother as is dead. More folks b'lieved in the spring then than what do now, 'cause that was sebenteen year agone. An' from bein' a puny cheel I grawed a bonny wan arter dipping. But some liked the crick-stone better for lil baabies than ...
— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts
... "No, I hadn't got any crick, but I had proud and lofty emotions on the inside of my soul that no man could ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley


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