English
crick
see also: Crick
Noun

crick (plural cricks)

  1. 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. A small jackscrew.
Translations
  • Italian: torcicollo (crick of the neck)
  • Spanish: golpe de aire
Verb

crick (cricks, present participle cricking; past and past participle cricked)

  1. To develop a crick#Noun|crick (cramp, spasm).
    • 2008, Jacqueline Signori, Ada (ISBN 9780615185187), page 48:
      Stomach sleeping never worked for her because her neck cricked and pained in so short a time, that she never got the chance to fall asleep that way although the rest of her body snuggled well into the bed in that position.
    • 2014, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, I Remember You: A Ghost Story, Minotaur Books (ISBN 9781466840669)
      “He's upstairs.” As soon as she said this, a loud knocking came from the crawl space below. Katrín was so startled that her neck cricked painfully as she looked down. Adrenalin rushed through her veins and the pain in her fingers disappeared.
  2. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
    • 2013, K. J. Parker, Pattern, Orbit (ISBN 9780316233415)
      He'd fallen asleep after all (and he'd done it in such a way as to crick his neck and his back and put his right arm to sleep; hardly a good start to a busy day) and now daylight was seeping through the bald patches in the thatch, ...
  3. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.
    • 2011, Camy Tang, Protection for Hire: A Novel, Zondervan (ISBN 9780310412762)
      He stopped a few feet from her, probably because he'd have to crick his neck to glare at her and that would just be embarrassing for him. “Dealing with garbage suits you.”
    • 2012, Doug Johnstone, Hit and Run, Faber & Faber (ISBN 9780571270460)
      The throbbing pain that even now was coursing through his neck and shoulders, making him crick his neck.
    • 2015, Emma Miller, A Match for Addy, Harlequin (ISBN 9781460376003), page 121:
      Addy was tall for a woman, and he liked that because he didn't have to crick his neck ...
    • 2018, Tim Major, Machineries of Mercy, ChiZine Publications (ISBN 9781771484701)
      Now she was able to stand on her feet, so long as she kept her neck cricked.
Noun

crick (plural cricks)

  1. (Appalachian) Alternative form of creek
Noun

crick (plural cricks)

  1. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
Crick
Proper noun
  1. A village in Northamptonshire, England
  2. A habitational surname derived from the placename
    Francis Crick was the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.


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