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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


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"