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n. A painful cramp or muscle spasm, as in the back or neck.

v. To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching.

n. Upper Northern & Western U.S. Variant of creek. See Regional Note at run.

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.)

n. A small jackscrew.

v. to violently spasm.

n. Alternative form of creek.

n. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

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.

n. A small jackscrew.

To creak.

n. A creaking. as of a door.

n. An inlet of the sea or a river: same as creek

n. A small stream; a brook: same as creek, 2, which is the usual spelling, though generally pronounced in the United States as crick.

n. A crevice; chink; cranny; corner.

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.

n. A small jackscrew.

To wrench or sprain: as, to crick one's neck.

n. English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

v. twist (a body part) into a strained position

n. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

"Where I came from the difference between a creek and a crick was a cow."

cricked    cricking    cricks   

biochemist    twist    muscle spasm    cramp    spasm   

spas   

Dick    Frick    Hick    Mick    Nic    Nick    Rick    Slick    Stick    Vic   

boarding-place    mouf    groun    brack    unbricker    zoop    weeth    marm    erway    gaat