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How to pronounce crick in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms kink, rick, wrick
Type of cramp, spasm, muscle spasm
Type Words
Synonyms francis crick, francis henry compton crick
Type Words
Type of twist


crick your neck.

Examples of crick

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Crick has a sponsor's exemption into the Nationwide Tour event at Champions Run.
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Crick and Orgel also ask why there is only one genetic code for terrestrial life.
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Crick occasionally expressed his views on eugenics, usually in private letters.
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Crick and Watson felt that they had benefited from collaborating with Wilkins.
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Crick then hurled himself into the offseason knowing that a spot was being vacated.
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Just as he turned, the pass from Manning was in the crick of his right elbow.
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Crick had by this time become a highly influential theoretical molecular biologist.
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Crick stressed the importance of finding new methods to probe human brain function.
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Crick moved to the United States in the mid-1970s, settling in La Jolla, California.
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More examples
  • A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
  • Twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck"
  • English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
  • 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. (Compare catch.); to violently spasm
  • A small stream of running water (creek). "Don't fall in the Shit Crick!"
  • Creek ( but 'Bentley Creek' is pronounced as "creak")
  • A place where wadder run truit and ya can go fishen
  • The Montanan word for a small stream, or creek.
  • The little wrinkles or crows feet that form to the side of you finger tip when you push down on a piece of leather.