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Noun crick has 2 senses
  1. crick, rick, wrick - a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
    --1 is a kind of spasm, cramp, muscle spasm
    Derived form: verb crick1
  2. Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick - English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916)
    --2 is a kind of biochemist
,Verb crick has 1 sense
  1. crick - twist the head into a strained position
    --1 is one way to     tense, strain, tense up
    Derived form: noun crick1
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