Usually means: Twisting, usually causing neck pain.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cricking: Merriam-Webster
  2. cricking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cricking: Vocabulary.com
  4. cricking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. cricking: Wiktionary
  6. cricking: Dictionary.com
  7. cricking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cricking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cricking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cricking: Medical dictionary

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  1. cricking: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cricking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (crick)

noun:  A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
noun:  A small jackscrew.
verb:  To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
verb:  To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
verb:  To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.
noun:  The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
noun:  A village and civil parish in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5872).
noun:  A small village in Caerwent community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4890).
noun:  A habitational surname derived from the placename.
noun:  (Appalachia, Ottawa Valley) Alternative form of creek [(British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.]
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