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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.






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"Crick" Quotes from Famous Books



... them by the arms with a palsy, so that they cannot lift their hands to their head; he manacleth their hands with the gout in their fingers; he wringeth them by the legs with the cramp in their shins; he bindeth them to the bed with the crick in the back; and he layeth one there at full length, as unable to rise as though he lay fast by the feet in ...
— Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens • Thomas More

... crick, at times, in the back of my neck, so that I can't turn my head without turning the hull of my ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard

... of Bad Lands. If them blamed Injuns hadn't lied, I could have packed water easy enough. They don't seem to be no end to it, and I must have come forty mile. You're in for it, Smith. It's goin' to be worse before it's better. If I could only lay in a crick—roll in it—douse my face in it—soak my clothes in ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... in the army sent by King Omar ben Ennuman to the succour of the King of Constantinople, a stronger than thou, send him hither and tell him of me, for in wrestling there are divers kinds of strokes and tricks, such as feinting and the fore-tripe and the back-tripe and the leg-crick and the thigh-twist and the jostle and the cross-buttock." "By Allah, O my lady," replied Sherkan, (and indeed he was greatly incensed against her), "were I the chief Es Sefedi or Mohammed Caimal or Ibn es Seddi,[FN9] I had not observed the fashion ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume II • Anonymous

... grown a good deal. But I am tired," the boy said, stretching himself out. "Me 'n' Benny run all the way as soon as we come in sight of the crick, and him 'n' Mis' Hingston wanted me to stay all night, but I wouldn't. I wanted to see you so ...
— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Crick" :   United Kingdom, spasm, Francis Henry Compton Crick, cramp, muscle spasm, UK, kink, Great Britain, wrick, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, rick, Britain, Francis Crick, twist, U.K., biochemist



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