0 a painful, usually sudden stiffness in a group of muscles in the neck or back:
1 a word used in some parts of the United States for a creek :
The water was a crick, just as he had said, channelled by a low bank.
2 to twist the muscles in the neck or back, causing painful stiffness:
3 a painful, usually sudden stiffness in the muscles of the neck or back:
"What's down there?" "Water. What we used to call a crick," his father said, smiling at the word.
The monitor is hung high on a wall, so that you crick your neck looking up at it.
She cricked her neck so badly that the chiropractor she went to see refused to touch it.
Crick writes a plain reasonable prose which he interlards with occasional glints of passion and impish or caustic asides.
I cricked my back, was successfully treated by a chiropractor and have not suffered from it since.
They have nearly got a crick in the neck from looking round at us.
