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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To creak.
  2. n. A creaking. as of a door.
  3. n. An inlet of the sea or a river: same as creek
  4. n. A small stream; a brook: same as creek, 2, which is the usual spelling, though generally pronounced in the United States as crick.
  5. n. A crevice; chink; cranny; corner.
  6. n. A painful spasmodic affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, in the nature of a cramp or transient stiffness, making motion of the part difficult.
  7. n. A small jackscrew.
  8. To wrench or sprain: as, to crick one's neck.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)
  2. n. A small jackscrew.
  3. v. to violently spasm.
  4. n. Appalachian Alternative form of creek.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
  2. n. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
  3. n. A small jackscrew.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
  2. v. twist (a body part) into a strained position
  3. n. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

Etymologies

  1. Middle English crike. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb 'The old man's jaw hung open, his eyes frowning with concentration, trying not to miss a single word.

    "Yes, green trees. Probably willow trees near a crick. And I see something under those trees. A - it's a wagon."'

    - Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham Jun 29, 2012

  • dontcry crick: smaller than a creek but bigger than a trickle. May 15, 2008

  • trivet I mean the kind you go fishin' in, not what happens to your neck when you spend too much time making wordie lists. Feb 6, 2007

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