crick

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  1. noun A painful cramp or muscle spasm, as in the back or neck.
  2. transitive verb To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching.
  3. noun Upper Northern & Western U.S. Variant of creek. See Regional Note at run.

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  • “Why you got your pants off?” If the crick was running it might make sense. —  GUDMagazineIssue0::Spring2007
  • You mean, the kind of crick one gets from perpetually playing second fiddle? —  Gawker
  • We see them sitting around watching TV and despair that they can't spend their days swimming in the quaint fishing hole down by the crick or roaming around the neighborhood with a wagon collecting tin for the war effort - though, most of those memories probably comes from the thousands of afternoons we spent watching Little Rascals shorts. —  Ridiculopathy.com
  • She says she ain't never done nothin' with the crick, an' if she ever nested anywhere it was in her own owned an' mortgaged house. —  Susan Clegg and a Man in the House
  • He calls her Lord Crick--crick--ipplegate," sobbed her ladyship, "Why did I marry him Why, indeed!" —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
 

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  1. Middle English crike.

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  1. A variant of creak; from Middle English creken = Middle Dutch kricken, creak, crack, Dutch kricken, creak, chirp, later F. criquer, creak: see creak.
  2. = Middle Dutch krick, creaking; from the verb: see crick, v. Cf. creak, n.
  3. from Middle English cryk, cryke, crike, from Icelandic kriki, a crick, creek, bay: see creek, the common literary form of the word.
  4. from Middle English cricke, crykke, a crick in the neck, apparently orig. a twist or bend, being ult. the same as crick, creek, q. v. Cf. crick.
  5. Of. cric and crick.
  6. crick, n.
 

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