crick

noun (1)

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\ ˈkrik

Definition of crick

(Entry 1 of 3)

: a painful spasmodic condition of muscles (as of the neck or back)

crick

verb

cricked; cricking; cricks

Definition of crick (Entry 2 of 3)

transitive verb

1 : to cause a crick in crick one's neck

2 : to turn or twist (something, such as one's head) especially into a strained position

crick

noun (2)

plural cricks

Definition of crick (Entry 3 of 3)

dialectal

: creek sense 1 I grew up fishing on little cricks with my dad.— C. W. Welch

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Examples of crick in a Sentence

Noun (1) got a crick in my neck from sleeping while sitting up Verb He cricked his back sleeping on the sofa.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun One of my favorite distinctions is when Steve described the difference between calling a particular stream a creek or a crick. — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2021 Old, lumpy pillows that give you a crick in your neck won't do you any favors when trying to fall asleep. — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021 If watching from your sofa or bed gives you a crick in your neck? — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 23 Feb. 2021 Yet most of us reach a day when merely sleeping in the wrong position on a pillow that’s too soft or too flat brings on a crick in the neck that sticks around for days. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 June 2020 So massage that crick in your neck, put on your blue-light glasses and settle down with these digital offerings. — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020 The hunters cruise slowly and look for them out the windows, and get cricks in their necks from it. — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019 Pirates fans got a crick in their necks, from trying to avoid looking at their future, which looks like their past, which was mostly terrible. — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018 His neck was stiff, as if there were a crick on both sides. — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb That nagging ache in your lower back, sharp pain in your wrist, or crick in your neck means something. — Simon Hill, Wired, 2 Mar. 2022 The gear selector for the standard six-speed manual gearbox also is a mite too far back in the cabin, cricking elbows during shifts into the even-numbered ratios. — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2018 See More

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