A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
1 For the moment I suffered from a nasty crick in the conscience.
2 At last I became conscious of an intolerable crick in my neck.
3 Why, I have one universal crick wherever I used to have muscles.
4 It was as if I'd developed a permanent crick in my back.
5 You can't see anything-exceptthe woods and the ' crick ' and the mountains.
6 The book that had fell in the crick was like that.
7 She says it cured her of a crick in the neck.
8 And the rolling soon gives her a crick in her neck.
9 A crick in my back brought me out of my thoughts.
10 Again, you see the ground slopes off to the crick yonder.
11 Sometimes fifteen or sixteen men and a crick were necessary to extricate them.
12 I've swum in that crick so often that it was nothin' to me.
13 I sat up and yawned, working a crick in my neck.
14 He woke with a crick in his neck and aching muscles.
15 Why, I've got the crick in me neck to this day!
16 Nev awoke to sunlight in his eyes and a crick in his neck.
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