'Crick' definitions:
Definition of 'crick'
(from WordNet)
noun
A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: crick, kink, rick, wrick]
noun
English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) [syn: Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick]
verb
Twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck"
Definition of 'Crick'
From: GCIDE
- Crick \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See Creak.] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crick'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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