Usually means: Painful spasm or strain, neck.
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  1. Crick, crick: Merriam-Webster
  2. crick, crick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crick, crick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Crick, crick: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crick, crick: Wordnik
  7. crick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Crick, crick: Wiktionary
  9. crick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crick: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crick: Dictionary.com
  13. crick: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Crick: Rhymezone
  19. Crick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crick: FreeDictionary.org
  22. crick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Crick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. crick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Crick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crick: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Crick: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. crick: Medical dictionary
  5. Crick: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. crick: Idioms

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  1. CRICK: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cricked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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