Definition of cricked Cricked
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What does cricked mean?
Part of speech
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NounPlural: cricks |
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| crick - a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | ||
| kink, rick, wrick | ||
| muscle spasm, spasm, cramp (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | ||
| britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, great britain a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom | ||
| crick - English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) | ||
| Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick | ||
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| crick - twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck" | ||
| twist twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- crick (n.)
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. - crick (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. - crick (n.)
A small jackscrew.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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crick
krik, n. a spasm or cramp of the muscles, esp. of the neck. [Prob. onomatopœic.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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crick
A small jack-screw.
