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Meanings of crick in English

Catalan
torticoli

A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

torticoli
Catalan
francis crick
Spanish
francis crick

English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

francis crick
Usage of crick in English
1
For the moment I suffered from a nasty crick in the conscience.
Simon the Jester
2
At last I became conscious of an intolerable crick in my neck.
To-morrow?
3
Why, I have one universal crick wherever I used to have muscles.
The Palace of Darkened Windows
4
It was as if I'd developed a permanent crick in my back.
To Die in Italbar
5
You can't see anything-exceptthe woods and the 'crick' and the mountains.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
6
The book that had fell in the crick was like that.
Danny's Own Story
7
She says it cured her of a crick in the neck.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
8
And the rolling soon gives her a crick in her neck.
Fishy-Winkle
9
A crick in my back brought me out of my thoughts.
Vrin: ten mortal gods
10
Again, you see the ground slopes off to the crick yonder.
Driven Back to Eden
11
Sometimes fifteen or sixteen men and a crick were necessary to extricate them.
Balzac
12
I've swum in that crick so often that it was nothin' to me.
Driven Back to Eden
13
I sat up and yawned, working a crick in my neck.
Nemesis
14
He woke with a crick in his neck and aching muscles.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
15
Why, I've got the crick in me neck to this day!
Paul Kelver
16
Nev awoke to sunlight in his eyes and a crick in his neck.
In for a penny
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Crick through the time
Crick across language varieties
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