[syn: Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick]
VERB (1)
1. twist (a body part) into a strained position;
- Example: "crick your neck"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Crick \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See Creak.]
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.]
--Johnson.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"