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Muscle spasm in the neck
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crick
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WordNet
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n. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: rick , wrick ] English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916) [syn: Francis Crick , Francis Henry Compton ...
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Crick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernard Crick (1929–2008), British political scientist Francis Crick (1916–2004), British scientist and joint discoverer of the structure of DNA George Crick (born 1891), English footballer Mark ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crick \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See Creak .] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] --Johnson.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If you crick your neck you might spot the odd bald patch, too!
Usage examples of crick.
Nobody in the cop business whispered, and the house had ignited with noise as soon as Crick gave the order for the invasion of techs.
Saw Crick, elbow braced against the doorjamb, talking to Sam, neither of them whispering either.
Sam and Crick, who were on their hands and knees studying splatter like engineers designing a bridge.
Sonora saw that Crick, on her left at the coffeepot, was looking their way.
Sonora said, aware that Crick and Sam and Gruber were looking slightly stunned by the turn of conversation.
She got a quick glimpse of Sam standing up and Crick on the telephone before the door shut.
Our attempts to recontact Eber and Crick have also proved unsuccessful.
Doug Crick standing four feet from him in the moonlight, his hands hanging demonstratively free at his sides.
He started the engine and edged slowly along the road while Crick kept talking.
And he writes down Crick in his notebook, one letter at a time, because his hand is sluggish from the heat.
With one exception nobody in this story, and no outfit or corporation, thank God, is based upon an actual person or outfit in the real world, whether we are thinking of Woodrow, Pellegrin, Landsbury, Crick, Curtiss and his dreaded House of ThreeBees, or Messrs.
Watson and Crick did the trick with tin shapes, interlocking jigsaw pieces that refused to combine in any configuration consistent with the data except the spiral staircase.
But a few months before, Francis Crick had also cowritten the Nobel Prize-winning paper revealing the structure of DNA.
Prominently featured, a beautiful article by Crick lays out the same inescapable conclusion.
He accepts the piece, a paper Crick delivered last fall to the Society for Experimental Biology, with the amalgam of trepidation and excitement of asking a pretty wallflower for a dance.