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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