crick

(krik)

noun

a painful muscle spasm or cramp in the neck, back, etc.

Origin: LME crykke < ON kriki, bend: see creek

transitive verb

to cause a crick in

noun

Dialectal creek (sense )

Crick, Francis H(arry) C(ompton) 1916-2004; Eng. scientist: helped determine the structure of DNA

See crick in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A painful cramp or muscle spasm, as in the back or neck.
transitive verb cricked, crick·ing, cricks
To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English crike

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noun
Upper Northern & Western U.S.
Variant of creek. See Regional Note at run.

British biologist who with James D. Watson proposed a spiral model, the double helix, for the molecular structure of DNA. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for advances in the study of genetics.

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