rick

1. 1.

   pile in ricks

   “rick hay”

   Broaderstack
2. 2.

   twist suddenly so as to sprain

   “wrench one's ankle”

   “The wrestler twisted his shoulder”

   “the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell”

   “I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days”

   Synonymstwistsprainwrenchturnwrick

   Broaderinjure

Other forms of rick

plural

ricks·

past tense

ricked·

present participle

ricking·

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 rick

What does rick mean?

rick means "a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rick?

rick has 1 syllable: rick. In IPA it is /ˈɹɪk/.

What is another word for rick?

Close synonyms include crick, kink, wrick, haystack, hayrick. 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 rick a common word?

rick is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rick?

1 word rhymes with rick. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.