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Crick

noun

A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British). Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick.

English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004). Synonyms: Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick.

verb

Twist (a body part) into a strained position.

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"Crick" Quotes from Famous Books

... give a man sores; I've carried my belongings in a three-bushel sack slung over my shoulder—blankets, tucker, spare boots and poetry all lumped together. I tried carrying a load on my head, and got a crick in my neck and spine for days. I've carried a load on my mind that should have been shared by editors and publishers. I've helped hump luggage and furniture up to, and down from, a top flat in London. ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... "I want to talk to you, and I can't do that if you're standing there in the middle of the floor so as I'd get a crick in my neck trying to look at you. Sit down ...

— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham

... in hand, and repairs the bullet-holes in the unemployed target with patches of black or white paper. Number two, brandishing a pole to which is attached a disc, black on one side and white on the other, is acquiring a permanent crick in the neck through gaping upwards at the target in search of hits. He has to be sharp-eyed, for the bullet-hole is a small one, and springs into existence without any other intimation than a spirt of sand on the bank twenty yards behind. ...

— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay

... she's grown a good deal. But I am tired," the boy said, stretching himself out. "Me 'n' Benny run all the way as soon as we come in sight of the crick, and him 'n' Mis' Hingston wanted me to stay all night, but I wouldn't. I wanted to ...

— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells

... couldn't get rid of her neuritis, she immediately asked to know the symptoms, and forthwith claimed them as her own. 'Well, there now, and to think what I was just a-sayin' to Shoosmith, this very morning! Just in the crick of the thumb-joint, you can't 'ardly abear yourself!' And then she told how she said to Shoosmith frequent, where was the use of his getting impatient, and exclaimin' the worst expressions? Because his language went beyond a ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

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