crick

1. 1.

   twist (a body part) into a strained position

   “crick your neck”

   Broadertwist

Other forms of crick

plural

cricks·

past tense

cricked·

present participle

cricking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crick

What does crick mean?

crick means "a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crick?

crick has 1 syllable: crick. In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪk/.

What is another word for crick?

Close synonyms include kink, rick, wrick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crick a common word?

crick is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.