Crick Definition & Meaning
crick
- noun
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
- English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
- verb
- twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck"
"Crick" in song lyrics
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"In Nineteen Fifty-Three, Francis Crick"
Cale Sampson — The Human Genome Project -
"cold water crick"
AOL — AOL -
"roy crick"
AOL — AOL
Words that rhyme with crick
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- What does crick mean?
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck"
- What part of speech is crick?
- Crick is a noun and a verb.
- How many definitions does crick have?
- Crick has 3 definitions across 2 parts of speech (noun, verb).