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Crick   /krɪk/   Listen
Crick

verb
1.
Twist (a body part) into a strained position.





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"Crick" Quotes from Famous Books



... she's grown a good deal. But I am tired," the boy said, stretching himself out. "Me 'n' Benny run all the way as soon as we come in sight of the crick, and him 'n' Mis' Hingston wanted me to stay all night, but I wouldn't. I wanted to ...
— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells
... on airth have them air Joneses got for dinner? I've sot and sot at that air front winder till I've got a crick in my back a tryin' to find out whether it's lamb or mutton. It's something ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various
... with deficuaty prevailed on them to do, the Second U S Regt was then the Least disabled the Charge begat with them on the Left of the Left whing I placed a Small Company of Rifelmen on that flank on the Bank of a Small Crick and persued the enemy about four hundred yards who Ran off in all directions but this time the Left flank of the Right whing Gave way and Number of the Indians Got into our Camp and Got possession of the Artilery and Scalped I Sopose a hundred men or more I turned back ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt


Words linked to "Crick" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, biochemist, spasm, muscle spasm, wrick, UK, Britain, U.K., rick, twist, Great Britain, Francis Henry Compton Crick, cramp, United Kingdom, kink


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