crick

IPA: krˈɪk

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.
A small jackscrew.
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
A village and civil parish in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5872).
A small village in Caerwent community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4890).
A habitational surname derived from the placename.
(Appalachia, Western Pennsylvania) Alternative form of creek [(Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.]

Examples of "crick" in Sentences

Creeks would perspire and cricks, sweat.
Crick was married and divorced three times.
Crick and I shouldn't now be famous for this.
Watson and Crick discovered the double helix in 1953.
The neurobiology of consciousness and sir Francis Crick.
After all, a creek is merely a creek, but a crick is a crick.
You are surely a redneck if you say "crick" instead of "creek".
Crick saw part of the structure of the code and then backed off.
Crick had been a nonresident fellow of the Institute since 1960.
Where I came from the difference between a creek and a crick was a cow.
The ambitions of Francis Crick and James Watson are exemplars of this fact.
Every day on the crick is a new story and my book was getting way too thick!
Assigned to replace the late Crick, much to the chagrin of his new crewmates.
You can't see anything -- except the woods and the 'crick' and the mountains.
"No, I've just got what old-fashioned folks call a 'crick' in it," explained the elderly horseman.
Apparently folks from east of the Mississippi have a had time understanding that that word is often pronounced "crick".
Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak".
There was a river there too; not a little bolt of chatoyant silk like the Avon, which they would have called a "crick" back there.
The tension comes when you are riding on a smooth road, you hit a pebble and hear a "crick", which is the sound of $6000 being flushed.