crick

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)