Meaning

4 senses

  1. To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).

  2. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.

  3. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

  4. (intransitive)To make a sharp, penetrating sound; chirp.

More definitions
  • twist (a body part) into a strained position

Examples

2 sentences

  1. I woke up with a crick in my neck.

    ruЯ проснулся с растяжением шеи. — odexed

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  2. Francis Crick was one of the discoverers of DNA's structure.

    ruФрэнсис Крик был одним из первооткрывателей структуры ДНК. — odexed

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Origin

From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s

From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek.

Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of creak; or perhaps from Middle English crikken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, or Proto-West Germanic *krakkjan

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Forms

cricks, cricking, cricked, cricked
Base formcrick · to crick
3rd person singularcricks
Present participlecricking
Past simplecricked
Past participlecricked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrick
he, she, itcricks

Past simpleLesson

all personscricked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cricked
he, she, ithas cricked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crick

Word family

2 related words
Derivedcrickyuncrick

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crewB2crewmancribcricketA2cricketercrickets
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