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Crick

noun

A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British). Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick.

English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004). Synonyms: Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick.

verb

Twist (a body part) into a strained position.

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"Crick" Quotes from Famous Books

... a dancin'-party Christmas night on "Hell fer Sartain." Jes tu'n up the fust crick beyond the bend thar, an' climb onto a stump, an' holler about ONCE, an' you'll see how the name come. Stranger, hit's HELL fer sartain! Well, Rich Harp was thar from the head-waters, an' Harve Hall toted Nance Osborn clean across ...

— 'Hell fer Sartain' and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

... ma'am. I'm King Randerson, foreman of the Diamond H, up the crick a ways. That is," he added, his blush deepening, "I was christened 'King.' But a while ago a dago professor who stayed overnight at the Diamond H tipped the boys off that 'King' was Rex in Latin lingo. An' so it's been Rex Randerson since then, though mostly they ...

— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer

... expenses when you've got to keep up appearances—that is, the appearance of being something that you ain't. You're in the fix of a dog chasing his tail—you can't make ends meet, and if you do it'll give you such a crick in your neck that you won't get any real satisfaction out of your gymnastics. You've got to live on a rump-steak basis when you're alone, so that you can appear to be on a quail-on-toast basis when ...

— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... hard. A prophetic crick already had planted itself in my back. "Will you forgive me if I submit that you sleep quite a distance from home?" I remarked with justifiable irony. "Why the deuce don't you stay on ...

— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

... sir," said old Jerry; "but I don't want no more harm in this crick of life. The Lord be pleased to keep all them Examiners at home. Might have none to find their corpusses until next leap-year. I hope with all my heart they won't come poking ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

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